Miranda Sawyer started her career at Smash Hits , before moving on to Select Magazine where she won the PPA Magazine Writer of the Year Award in 1993, the youngest person ever to do so. She wrote a Time Out column from 1993-96, and a column for The Mirror from 2001-2003, and won the In The City music-writing award for profiles on Paul Weller and Oasis written for The Observer . A contracted feature writer for The Observer for ten years, she is Esquire 's motoring columnist and a contributing editor for The Face .

She writes regularly for Vogue , Blender , and other newspaper and magazines.She's often on television and radio, presenting YR.1 , a landmark photography event for Channel 4 in 2001, and Damon Albarn's Mali expedition for Radio Four in the same year. She presented the Art Marathon for BBC2 in 1995 and co-presented Big Mouth with Tony Parsons for Channel 4 in 1996. In 2000 she recorded a series of profiles for BBC2, and she has appeared in many discussion programmes including Question Time , Late Review , Music of the Millenium , and What The Papers Say . She recently co-scripted and presented an hour-long programme looking at issues surrounding the age of consent for Channel Four, as part of a series of programmes on young people and sex.

Miranda is on the judging panel that chose the British city that will be the European Capital of Culture for 2008. Her first book, Park And Ride , was published by Little, Brown, & Company in 1999, and has been reprinted in paperback several times since. She lives in London.