Miranda July

July was born in Barre, Vermont, in 1974,{{Cite news |url= https://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2005/06/26/putting_all_they_know_to_work|title=Putting all they know to work|last=Morris|first=Wesley| newspaper= Boston Globe |date= June 26, 2005| access-date=June 27, 2012}} {{subscription required}} the daughter of Lindy Hough and Richard Grossinger. Her parents are both writers who taught at Goddard College at the time.{{cite web|url=http://www.literaryrevolution.com/mr-wenclas-060407.html|title=The Miranda July Story |publisher= Underground Literary Alliance| access-date=August 8, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701201029/http://www.literaryrevolution.com/mr-wenclas-060407.html|archive-date= July 1, 2007|url-status=dead}} They were also the founders of North Atlantic Books, a publisher of alternative health, martial arts, and spiritual titles.{{cite web |url= http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/08/17/me-and-you-and-miranda-july-and-berkeley/ |title=Me and You and Miranda July and Berkeley |last= Dinkelspiel| first= Frances | author-link= Frances Dinkelspiel | date=August 17, 2011 |website=Berkeleyside.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160901091128/http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/08/17/me-and-you-and-miranda-july-and-berkeley/ |archive-date=September 1, 2016 |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://www.northatlanticbooks.com/store/profile.html|title=North Atlantic Books |publisher= North Atlantic Books|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130915050656/http://www.northatlanticbooks.com/store/profile.html|archive-date=September 15, 2013}} Her father was Jewish, and her mother was Protestant.

July was encouraged to work on her short fiction by author Rick Moody.{{cite web |url= http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0719,ashman,76576,10.html|title= You and Her and Everything She Knows|last=Ashman|first=Angela|work=The Village Voice|date=May 8, 2007}} She was raised in Berkeley, California, where she first began staging plays at 924 Gilman Street,{{cite news|last1=Silvers |first1=Emma |title=Miranda July on Her Love For the Gilman and Growing Up In Berkeley |url=https://www.sfweekly.com/music/miranda-july-on-her-love-for-the-gilman-and-growing-up-in-berkeley/ |newspaper=SF Weekly |access-date=4 October 2020 |date=21 January 2015}}{{cite web |last1=Onstad |first1=Katrina |title=Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/magazine/the-make-believer.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=14 July 2011 |quote=She wasn't interested in performing the play at her preppy private high school, so she approached 924 Gilman, a local punk club.}} a local punk rock club.{{cite web |url= http://www.seattlepi.com/visualart/230572_moment30.html|title=A moment with performance artist/filmmaker Miranda July |website=Seattle Post-Intelligencer | last= Hackett| first= Regina |date=May 30, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113060542/https://www.seattlepi.com/ae/article/A-moment-with-performance-artist-filmmaker-1177195.php |archive-date=November 13, 2017 |url-status=live |quote=I was a car door unlocker. I worked at Pop-A-Lock, but I haven't had to have that kind of job since I was 23. }}{{cite web |title=Miranda July » "Love Diamond" |url=https://www.pica.org/event/miranda-july-3/ |website=PICA |access-date=4 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201004042340/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3AngZlgFwY4AoJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.pica.org%2Fevent%2Fmiranda-july-3%2F |archive-date=4 October 2020 |date=4 December 1998 |quote=Since she burst onto the scene in 1995, Portland artist Miranda July has been busily making waves with her films, videos, performances and recordings which explore the world of women. In three years, she founded Big Miss Moviola, "the largest underground distributor of lady-made movies;" founded, performed and recorded with two rock bands — The CeBe Barnes Band and The Need; directed a number of film and video projects which have been shown in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Portland, Toronto and Tokyo; performed extensively up and down the West Coast and around New York; and released five CDs of her work.}} She attended The College Preparatory School in Oakland for high school. She describes the experience as overwhelming. She later attended the film school at University of California Santa Cruz, but dropped out during her second year and moved to Portland, Oregon.{{cite news | url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/indie-filmmaker-scorches-in-her-debut/article20424640/ | title=Indie filmmaker scorches in her debut | newspaper=The Globe and Mail | date=July 22, 2005 | last1=Lacey | first1=Liam }}

After relocating to Portland, Oregon,{{cite web |last1=Phoenix |first1=Val |title=From Queercore To The Future: Miranda July Talks Independent Art |url=https://thequietus.com/articles/07278-miranda-july-the-future |website=The Quietus |publisher=Black Sky Thinking Ltd |location=London, England|access-date=4 October 2020 |language=en-us |date=2 November 2011 |quote=Who were your running buddies? MJ: Like, Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney. I was a founding member of a band called The Need, but we kind of went separate ways. I moved up there to be closer to my girlfriend at the time, and dropped out of college.}} she took up performance art in "one woman shows".{{Citation|title=Dialogue: "Being Miranda July"|date=May 20, 2017|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyIA1ENJMao |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/ZyIA1ENJMao |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|access-date=November 15, 2018}}{{cbignore}} Her performances were successful; she has been quoted as saying she has not worked a day job since she was 23 years old.{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/29/DDGFMDG2RF17.DTL|title=Performance artist's new role – film director|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=June 29, 2005|access-date=April 11, 2006|first=G. Allen|last=Johnson}} In an interview for the Tate, she explained that she still tried to practice performance, partially due to its stark differences from filmmaking, such as its live audience or how "present" it is in comparison.{{cite web|last=Tate|title=Miranda July – 'I Began with Performance' |work=TateShots |date=January 25, 2016 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWSmhafUprA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/VWSmhafUprA |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live| via= YouTube| access-date=November 15, 2018}}{{cbignore}} Portland is also where she began participating in the riot grrrl scene that was beginning to grow in the early 1990s.

In the early stages of her film career, she created several small video projects and performances years prior to her feature film, Me and You and Everyone We Know. However, while she worked on her art, July had to work several odd jobs; she worked as a waitress, a tastemaker for Coca-Cola, a locksmith, and a stripper.{{Cite news|url=https://www.elle.com/culture/art-design/interviews/a42533/miranda-july-joanie-4-jackie/|title=How This Underground Feminist Art Project Turned Miranda July into a Filmmaker| first= Estelle| last= Tang| date=January 30, 2017|work= Elle |access-date=November 15, 2018}}

At the age of 16, Miranda wrote and directed a play known as The Lifers, which was based on a close connection she had with a man who was incarcerated for murder. She moved on to stage it in punk clubs.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

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July was immersed in the riot grrrl scene in Portland and motivated by its do-it-yourself ethos, and she began an effort that she described as "a free alternative distribution system for women movie-makers".{{Cite book |last1=Columpar |first1=Corinn |last2=Mayer |first2=Sophie |year=2009 |title=There She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=shP4ZC-Bo0IC&pg=PA24 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |page=24 |isbn= 978-0814333907}} One of July's reasons for starting the project was to apply the concepts of riot grrrl into the filmmaking world. The idea was to connect as many women artists as possible, let them see each other's work, and foster a sense of community.{{cite web |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/201702/joanie-4-jackie-66054 |title=Joanie4Jackie |first=Julia|last=Bryan-Wilsonn|date=February 2017 |work=Artforum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208013007/https://www.artforum.com/print/201702/joanie-4-jackie-66054 |archive-date=February 8, 2018 |url-status=live }} Participants sent a self-made short film to July, who mailed back a compilation videotape containing that film and nine others – a "chainletter tape".{{cite web |url=https://i-d.co/article/welcome-to-joanie-4-jackie-miranda-julys-90s-feminist-film-project/ |title=Welcome to Joanie4Jackie – Miranda July's 90s feminist film project |first=Wendy|last=Syfret|date=January 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208010523/https://i-d.vice.com/en_au/article/evx9je/welcome-to-joanie-4-jackie-miranda-julys-90s-feminist-film-project |archive-date=February 8, 2018 |url-status=live }} When it began in 1995, the project was called Big Miss Moviola but was soon renamed Joanie4Jackie.{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.elle.com/culture/art-design/interviews/a42533/miranda-july-joanie-4-jackie/|title=How This Underground Feminist Art Project Turned Miranda July into a Filmmaker|date=January 30, 2017 |magazine=Elle |author=Tang, Estelle |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214013558/http://www.elle.com/culture/art-design/interviews/a42533/miranda-july-joanie-4-jackie/ |archive-date=December 14, 2017 |url-status=live }} July also credits the project to the loneliness she was experiencing at the time, but felt she learned from the project immensely, saying "that was my film school". July's first film, Atlanta, appears on the second tape of the series. July ran the project for seven years, handing it off to the film department of Bard College in 2003.Columpar & Mayer, pp.24–25.

In spring 2016, July donated an archive of Joanie4Jackie to the Getty Research Institute.{{cite web |title=Contact + FAQ |url=http://www.joanie4jackie.com/contact/ |website=Joanie 4 Jackie |access-date=4 October 2020 |quote=The Joanie 4 Jackie archive was donated to the Getty Research Institute / Getty Trust by Miranda July in Spring 2016. ... The artists remain the rightsholders of their work...What happened to the Bard College Joanie 4 Jackie Tutorial after the archive moved to Getty Research Institute? The Joanie 4 Jackie Tutorial ended in 2007, but sharing its spirit, the The[sic] Joanie 4 Jackie Film Club, run by students and faculty at Bard College, brings professional women filmmakers to campus to present their work.}} The collection includes more than 200 titles from the 1990s and 2000s, videos from Joanie4Jackie events, booklets, posters, hand-written letters from participants, and other documentation.{{cite web |title=Joanie 4 Jackie |url=http://www.joanie4jackie.com/ |website=Joanie 4 Jackie |access-date=4 October 2020 |quote=In 1995 Miranda July dropped out of college, moved to Portland, Oregon, and typed up a pamphlet that she imagined would be the start of a revolution of girls and women making movies and sharing them with each other. The pamphlet said: "A challenge and a promise: Lady, you send me your movie and I'll send you the latest Big Miss Moviola Chainletter Tape."}} Thomas W. Gaehtgens, the director of the Getty Research Institute, stated that the acquisition is "an esteemed addition to our Special Collections that connects to work by many important 20th century artists who are also represented in our archives, such as Eleanor Antin, Yvonne Rainer and Carolee Schneemann."{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-miranda-july-joanie-4-jackie-20170130-story.html|title=The Getty acquires Miranda July's feminist DIY video archive for 'Joanie 4 Jackie'|last=Vankin|first=Deborah|date=January 30, 2017|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=April 24, 2017|issn=0458-3035}}{{cite web |last1=July |first1=Miranda |title=Miranda July Shares Her Vintage Feminist Film Archive |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/t-magazine/miranda-july-joanie-4-jackie-film.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=4 October 2020 |date=30 January 2017}}

Miranda made a flier for other women filmmakers of her time to see as a way for them to send Miranda their VHS tapes of their work. By doing so, Miranda would be able to watch then send the films back to that person. This was how women during that time period were able to see each other's work.

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Filmmaker rated her number one in their "25 New Faces of Indie Film" in 2004. After winning a slot in a Sundance workshop, she developed her first feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, which opened in 2005.

The film won the Caméra d'Or prize at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/palmares/camera_d_or.php?langue=6002&edition=2005|title=Cannes 2005: The Winners |publisher=indieWIRE.com|date=May 21, 2005|access-date=August 8, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061130144701/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/palmares/camera_d_or.php?langue=6002&edition=2005|archive-date=November 30, 2006}} as well as the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Best First Feature at the Philadelphia Film Festival, Feature Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://meandyou.mirandajuly.com|title=Me and You and Everyone We Know|publisher=IFC Films|year=2005|access-date=April 20, 2009}}

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On May 16, 2007, July mentioned that she was working on a new film. This film was originally titled "Satisfaction" but was later renamed The Future, with July in a lead role.[https://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/finding-satisfaction-1117985771/ Finding 'Satisfaction'] Variety, May 15, 2008. The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival{{cite news| url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/la-et-sundance-miranda-july-20110121,0,6579977.story|work=Los Angeles Times|first=Mark|last=Olsen|title=Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July looks into 'The Future'|date=January 21, 2011}} and was nominated for a Golden Bear at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.{{Cite web|title=Berlin International Film Festival 2011: First Competition Films|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_7188.html|access-date=January 3, 2011|website=}}

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In March 2018, it was announced July would write and direct a heist film, with Brad Pitt and Youree Henley producing the film, under their Plan B Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures banners, respectively.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/miranda-july-plan-b-annapurna-1202727671/|title=Miranda July Sets Family Drama Movie With Plan B, Annapurna|website=Variety|first=Dave|last=McNary|date=March 15, 2018|access-date=June 2, 2018}} That same month, Evan Rachel Wood, Richard Jenkins, Debra Winger and Gina Rodriguez joined the cast of the film.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/evan-rachel-wood-gina-rodriguez-star-miranda-july-heist-feature-1098359|title=Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez to Star in Miranda July Heist Feature (Exclusive)|website=The Hollywood Reporter|first1=Borys|last1=Kit|first2=Mia|last2=Galuppo|date=March 29, 2018|access-date=June 2, 2018}} In June 2018, Mark Ivanir joined the cast of the film.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/eddie-murphy-dolemite-is-my-name-netflix-1202837013/|title=Film News Roundup: Eddie Murphy to Star in Biopic 'Dolemite Is My Name' for Netflix|website=Variety|first=Dave|last=McNary|date=June 7, 2018|access-date=June 11, 2018}} Principal photography began in May 2018.{{cite web|url=https://productionlist.com/filming-may-miranda-july-direct-upcoming-untitled-heist-film-california-may/|title=Filming in May: Miranda July to Direct Upcoming Untitled Heist Film in California This May|website=Production List|date=May 13, 2018|access-date=June 2, 2018}} Its theatrical release was on September 25, 2020.

In July's film 'The Amateurist (1998),{{cite web |author=Stephens, Chuck |year=2000 |title=Discovery: Miranda July |url=https://www.filmcomment.com/article/discovery-miranda-july/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321174015/https://www.filmcomment.com/article/discovery-miranda-july/ |archive-date=March 21, 2017 |access-date=January 30, 2019 |website=Film Comment}} a dowdy researcher examines, via a video monitor, a stereotypical "beautiful woman"; July plays both roles. July wrote, directed, and starred in the film. The film won Cinematexas Best Experimental and No Budget Award 1999, New York Expo 1999 Silver Award Experimental, and San Francisco Golden Gate Award Silver Spire 2000.{{Cite web |title=The Amateurist {{!}} Video Data Bank |url=https://www.vdb.org/titles/amateurist |access-date=2024-03-18 |website=www.vdb.org}}

In October 2000, July released Nest of Tens{{Citation |title=Nest of Tens (Short 2000) – Release info – IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282790/releaseinfo/ |access-date=2024-03-18 |language=en-US}}.{{Cite news |last=Wageman |first=Virginia |date=June 20, 1999 |title=Exhibit of Grunge Videos explores self-identity, society |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16869523/miranda_july/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130232518/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16869523/miranda_july/ |archive-date=January 30, 2019 |access-date=January 30, 2019 |newspaper=The Honolulu Advertiser |location=Honolulu, Hawaii |page=E8 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}} A lengthier video, the 27-minute Nest of Tens (2000), juxtaposes four unrelated scenarios in which "seemingly everyday people go about acting completely normal while demonstrating distinct abnormality". July wrote and directed the film with Polly Bilchuk in the starring role. Nest of Tens has been placed in the permanent online collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.{{cite web |year=2019 |title=Miranda July: 'Nest of Tens', 2000 |url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/118591 |access-date=January 30, 2019 |website=Moma.org}} July won awards for Nest of Tens, the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival's main prize 2001 and Cinematexas International Short Film Festival's Gecko Award 2000.{{Citation |title=Nest of Tens (Short 2000) – Awards – IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282790/awards/ |access-date=2024-03-18 |language=en-US}}{{better source needed|date=March 2024}}

Wayne Wang consulted with July about aspects of his 2001 feature-length film The Center of the World,{{cite news |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2001/04/interview-wayne-wang-journeys-to-the-center-of-the-world-81012/ |title=Interview: Wayne Wang Journeys to "The Center of the World" |author=Kaufman, Anthony |date=April 20, 2001 |work=IndieWire |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110164747/http://www.indiewire.com/2001/04/interview-wayne-wang-journeys-to-the-center-of-the-world-81012/ |archive-date=November 10, 2016 |url-status=live }} for which she received a story credit.{{cite news |url=https://www.avclub.com/miranda-july-1798208523 |title=Interview: Miranda July |author=Rabin, Nathan |date=July 6, 2005 |newspaper=The A.V. Club |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123030528/https://film.avclub.com/miranda-july-1798208523 |archive-date=January 23, 2018 |url-status=live }} July appears as herself in the 2017 documentary Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/turn-it-around-the-story-of-east-bay-punk-review-1202451514/ |title=Film Review: 'Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk' |author=Harvey, Dennis |date=June 2, 2017 |website=Variety |access-date=January 30, 2019 }} She was interviewed for the film !Women Art Revolution.{{cite web | author = Anon | year = 2018 | url = https://exhibits.stanford.edu/women-art-revolution/feature/artist-curator-critic-interviews | title = Artist, Curator & Critic Interviews | work = !Women Art Revolution – Spotlight at Stanford | access-date = August 23, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180326230847/https://exhibits.stanford.edu/women-art-revolution/feature/artist-curator-critic-interviews | archive-date = March 26, 2018 | url-status=live }} July narrates the documentary Fire of Love.

She recorded her first EP for Kill Rock Stars in 1996, titled Margie Ruskie Stops Time, with music by The Need.{{Cite news |last=Peloquin |first=Jahna |date=August 17, 2012 |title=Miranda July's bright Future |url=http://www.startribune.com/miranda-july-s-bright-future/127312863/ |newspaper=Star Tribune |location=Minneapolis, MN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122203457/http://www.startribune.com/miranda-july-s-bright-future/127312863/ |archive-date=January 22, 2018 |url-status=live }} She released two full-length LPs, 10 Million Hours A Mile in 1997 and The Binet-Simon Test in 1998, both on Kill Rock Stars.{{AllMusic |class=artist |id=mn0000427346 |tab=discography |label=Miranda July discography |access-date=January 22, 2018 }} She collaborated with Calvin Johnson in his musical project Dub Narcotic Sound System, and in 1999 she made a split EP with IQU, released on Johnson's K Records.{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000668415 |label=Girls on Dates review |first=Ken |last=Taylor |access-date=January 22, 2018 }}

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July has acted in many of her own short films, including Atlanta, The Amateurist, Nest of Tens, Are You The Favorite Person of Anyone?, and her feature-length films Me and You and Everyone We Know and The Future. She also made an appearance in the film Jesus' Son (1998). She appeared in an episode of Portlandia in 2012.{{cite web |url=https://www.ifc.com/shows/portlandia/blog/2012/02/miranda-july-visits-portlandia |title=Watch: Miranda July Visits "Portlandia" |author=Locker, Melissa |date=February 11, 2012 |publisher=IFC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180121112015/https://www.ifc.com/shows/portlandia/blog/2012/02/miranda-july-visits-portlandia |archive-date=January 21, 2018 |url-status=dead |access-date=January 25, 2018 }} She co-starred in Josephine Decker's 2018 feature film, Madeline's Madeline.{{Cite news |last=Ebiri |first=Bilge |date=January 28, 2018 |title="Madeline's Madeline": The Best Film I Saw at Sundance |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/01/28/madelines-madeline-the-best-film-i-saw-at-sundance/ |newspaper=The Village Voice |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131183137/https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/01/28/madelines-madeline-the-best-film-i-saw-at-sundance/ |archive-date=January 31, 2018 |url-status=live }}

In 1998, July made Love Diamond, her first full-length multimedia performance piece – in her description, a "live movie." This two-hour stage work featured July playing multiple characters, humorously depicting women's perceived cultural roles.{{Cite news |author=Staff |date=February 27, 1999 |title=The World According to Sleater-Kinney |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16869421/miranda_july/ |newspaper=The Guardian |page=45 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=January 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129000127/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16869421/miranda_july/ |archive-date=January 29, 2019 |url-status=live }} {{Open access}} This was followed by a second full-length performance piece, The Swan Tool, and a six-minute film, Getting Stronger Every Day (2001).{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/mar/06/artsfeatures4|title=Film review: Miranda July|last=Brooks|first=Xan|date=March 6, 2001|website=The Guardian|access-date=March 24, 2018}} The latter is an abstract view of a grown man and a little girl, seemingly taunted by indistinct floating shapes while an offscreen narrator recounts a tale of real-life pedophilia. The Swan Tool is another "live movie", a one-woman show in which July plays Lisa Cobb, a woman searching for her lost body. Although it's peppered with deadpan comedy, the surrealist story concerns "childhood sexual traumas, adult alienation, and persistent, unfocused guilt".{{Cite book |last=Betancourt |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Betancourt |year=2004 |title=Re-Viewing Miami: A Collection of Essays, Criticism, and Art Reviews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RoQItonqx7cC&pg=PA48 |location=Holicong, Pennsylvania |publisher=Wildside Press |pages=48–50 |isbn=0-8095-1122-3 }}

In 2006, after completing her first feature film, she went on to create another multimedia piece, Things We Don't Understand and Definitely Are Not Going To Talk About, which she performed in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York.{{cite web|url=http://mirandajuly.com/performances|title=Miranda July: performances|website=MirandaJuly.com|access-date=August 8, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070710155018/http://mirandajuly.com/performances|archive-date=July 10, 2007}} This stage show contained several ideas that would become key elements of her later film, The Future.

In March 2015, July premiered her performance work New Society as part of the 58th San Francisco International Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.sffs.org/press/releases/3315-sfiff58-new-society|title=San Francisco Film Society and SFMOMA Co-Present Miranda July's 'New Society' at 58th San Francisco International Film Festival|date=March 3, 2015|website=San Francisco Film Society|access-date=April 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506035232/http://www.sffs.org/press/releases/3315-sfiff58-new-society|archive-date=May 6, 2016|url-status=dead}} In the program for the performance, July requested the audience not share details of the show, stating it is now "a rare sensation to sit down in a theater with no idea what will happen."{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/theater/review-in-miranda-julys-new-society-the-audience-makes-the-show.html|title=Review: In Miranda July's 'New Society', the Audience Makes the Show|last=Brantley|first=Ben|date=October 11, 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=April 20, 2016}}

With artist Harrell Fletcher, July founded the online art project called Learning to Love You More (2002–2009). The project's website offered assignments to artists whose submissions became part of "an ever-changing series of exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts presented all over the world".{{cite web|url=http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/hello/index.php|title=Hello|author=Yuri Ono (designer)|year=2009|website=Learningtoloveyoumore.com|publisher=Miranda July; Harrell Fletcher|access-date=June 27, 2012}} Over 8,000 people participated in the project. In addition to its internet presentations, Learning to Love You More also compiled exhibitions for the Whitney Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, and other hosts.{{cite web|url=http://www.kcai.edu/events/current-perspectives-lecture-series/spring-2009|title=Current Perspectives lecture series, Spring 2009: Harrell Fletcher|author=Staff|year=2009|work=Kcai.edu|publisher=Kansas City Art Institute|access-date=June 27, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323020439/http://www.kcai.edu/events/current-perspectives-lecture-series/spring-2009 |archive-date=March 23, 2012}} A book version of the project's online art was released in 2007.{{Cite book|title=Learning to Love You More|last=July|first=Miranda|author2=Fletcher, Harrell|year=2007|publisher=Prestel|location=Munich; New York|isbn=978-3791337333|oclc=171112007}} Starting May 1, 2009 the project's website stopped accepting assignment submissions. In 2010 the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art acquired the website, to preserve it as an archive of the project online.{{cite web|url=http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/index.php|title=Learning To Love You More|website=learningtoloveyoumore.com|access-date=April 24, 2017}}

July constructed a sculptural exhibition, Eleven Heavy Things, for the 2009 Venice Biennale.{{Cite news|date=July 21, 2011 |title=Art: July's 'Eleven Heavy Things' comes to MOCA center |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2011-jul-21-la-et-pickjuly21-20110721-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918202954/http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/21/entertainment/la-et-pickjuly21-20110721 |archive-date=September 18, 2015 |url-status=live }} Its assortment of cartoonish shapes, made sturdy with fiberglass and steel, were designed for playful interaction by visitors.{{cite web |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/photos-miranda-julys-eleven-heavy-things-art-in-los-angeles |title=Photos: Miranda July's Eleven Heavy Things Art in Los Angeles |author=Gopnik, Blake |date=August 11, 2011 |website=The Daily Beast |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180209032426/https://www.thedailybeast.com/photos-miranda-julys-eleven-heavy-things-art-in-los-angeles |archive-date=February 9, 2018 |url-status=live }} The exhibition was also shown in New York City at Union Square Park and in Los Angeles at the MOCA Pacific Design Center.

In 2013 she organized We Think Alone, an art project involving the private emails of public figures. Unredacted except for the recipients' names, the emails were freely donated by a disparate group of notable persons including author Sheila Heti, theoretical physicist Lee Smolin, basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and actress Kirsten Dunst. July grouped selected emails by topic, and sent a new set to the project's subscribers every week for 20 weeks.{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2013/07/06/199254433/from-the-outboxes-of-the-noteworthy |title=Miranda July: From The Outboxes Of The Noteworthy |author=Staff |date=July 6, 2013 |publisher=NPR |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125215005/https://www.npr.org/2013/07/06/199254433/from-the-outboxes-of-the-noteworthy |archive-date=January 25, 2018 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/miranda-july-on-we-think-alone-her-new-email-project |title=Miranda July on 'We Think Alone,' Her New Email Project |author= Wilkinson, Isabel |date=July 2, 2013 |website=The Daily Beast |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126224536/https://www.thedailybeast.com/miranda-july-on-we-think-alone-her-new-email-project |archive-date=January 26, 2018 |url-status=live }} As one reviewer described them, the emails are "simultaneously mundane and eerily revealing; they shed light on how people in the public eye craft their private identities... [they] also underscore, in some way, the way all of us present ourselves over email: excessively formal or passive-aggressive, lovey-dovey, flakey, overly excited."

In 2014, July created Somebody, an iOS app{{cite magazine|last1=Stinson|first1=Liz|title=Miranda July Creates an App That Doubles as a Social Experiment|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/09/miranda-july-creates-an-app-that-doubles-as-a-social-experiment/|magazine=Wired|access-date=June 13, 2015}} which allows users to compose a message to be delivered to someone else in-person, or to deliver someone else's message in-person. When you send your friend a message through Somebody, it goes – not to your friend – but to the Somebody user nearest your friend. This person (likely a stranger) delivers the message verbally, acting as your stand-in. Somebody is a far-reaching public art project that incites performance and twists our love of avatars and outsourcing – every relationship becomes a three-way. The project was funded by Miu Miu.{{cite news|last1=Alter|first1=Alexandar|title=An Escape Artist, Unlocking Door After Door Miranda July Blurs Fiction and Reality to Promote a Novel|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/10/arts/miranda-july-blurs-fiction-and-reality-to-promote-a-novel.html|access-date=January 28, 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 9, 2015}} The app closed on October 31, 2015.{{cite web|url=http://somebodyapp.com/ |title=Somebody |website=Somebodyapp.com |access-date=2020-03-06}}

In 2022 July collaborated with Mack Books to create Services, a limited edition book/sculpture composed of photographs and texts between July and Jay Benedicto, a trans woman living in the Philippines who offered services to increase the readership of self-published authors. The first six months of July and Benedicto's correspondence, which coincided with the first six months of North American lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, were published in the book. Only 25 copies were made available for sale.{{cite web |last1=July |first1=Miranda |title=Services |url=http://www.mirandajuly.com/services/ |access-date=7 April 2022}}

For its fall 2024 campaign, Prada worked with July on "Now That We're Here", a photo series featuring stars like Hunter Schafer, Letitia Wright, Damson Idris, Harris Dickinson and Ma Yili who encourage people to call into a hotline where they can interact with pre-recorded scripts recorded by July herself.Layla Ilchi (30 August 2024), [https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/prada-miranda-july-hotline-fall-2024-campaign-1236565031/ Prada Unveils Miranda July Hotline for Fall 2024 Campaign] Women's Wear Daily.

Her short story The Boy from Lam Kien was published in 2005 by Cloverfield Press, as a special-edition book with illustration by Elinor Nissley and Emma Hedditch. Another short story, Something That Needs Nothing, was published in the following year by The New Yorker.{{Cite magazine |last=July |first=Miranda |date=September 18, 2006 |title=Fiction: "Something That Needs Nothing" |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/09/18/something-that-needs-nothing |magazine=The New Yorker |pages=68–77 }}

No One Belongs Here More Than You, July's collection of short stories, was published by Scribner in 2007.{{cite news|last1=Kolhatkar|first1=Sheelah|title=Cringe Festival|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/books/review/Kolhatkar-t.html|access-date=January 28, 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 1, 2007}}

It won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award on September 24, 2007.{{cite news|url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2176098,00.html|title=Award-winning film-maker scoops short story prize|work=The Guardian|date=September 24, 2007|access-date=January 17, 2018|location=London |first=Richard|last=Lea}} In The New York Times, Sheelah Kolhatkar gave the collection a mixed review: "A handful of these stories are sweet and revealing, although in many cases the attempt to create 'art' is too self-conscious, and the effort comes off as pointlessly strange."

As of 2015 the collection has more than 200,000 copies in circulation.{{cite news|last1=Alter|first1=Alexandra|title=An Escape Artist, Unlocking Door After Door Miranda July Blurs Fiction and Reality to Promote a Novel|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/10/arts/miranda-july-blurs-fiction-and-reality-to-promote-a-novel.html|date=January 10, 2015|access-date=April 5, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times}}

July's non-fiction story collection It Chooses You was published by McSweeney's in 2011.{{Cite book|title=It Chooses You|date=2011|last=July|first=Miranda|others=Sire, Brigitte|isbn=9781936365012|location=San Francisco, California|oclc=713187971}}

While procrastinating during the writing of her screenplay The Future in 2009, July criss-crossed Los Angeles accompanied by photographer Brigitte Sire to meet a random selection of PennySaver sellers, glimpsing thirteen surprisingly moving and profoundly specific realities, along the way shaping her film, and herself, in unexpected ways.{{Cite book|title=It Chooses You|last=July|first=Miranda|publisher=McSweeney's|year=2011|isbn=978-1936365012|location=San Francisco}} The work received mixed reviews, with fans citing the collection's "lasting impression" of realistic struggle{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/it-chooses-you-by-miranda-july-6286449.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220515/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/it-chooses-you-by-miranda-july-6286449.html |archive-date=May 15, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=It Chooses You, By Miranda July|date=2012-01-08|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2020-02-05}} and critics citing the mumblecore-influenced artist's writing style as a "cheap trick" in text-format.{{cite web|url=https://slate.com/culture/2012/01/miranda-julys-it-chooses-you-reviewed-by-lionel-shriver.html|title=Lionel Shriver Reviews the Latest from Miranda July|last=Shriver|first=Lionel|date=2012-01-08|website=Slate|language=en|access-date=2020-02-05}}

July's first novel The First Bad Man was published by Scribner in January 2015.{{cite news|last1=Kakutani|first1=Michiko|title=Crouched Behind a Barricade, Until a Crude Stranger Barges in Miranda July's 'The First Bad Man'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/books/miranda-julys-the-first-bad-man.html|access-date=April 5, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 11, 2015 }} The narrative centers around Cheryl Glickman, a middle-aged woman in crisis whose life abruptly changes course when a young woman, named Clee, moves into her home.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/11/the-first-bad-man-by-miranda-july-review-debut-novel|title=The First Bad Man by Miranda July review – strenuously quirky|last=Miller|first=Laura|date=February 11, 2015|work=The Guardian|access-date=October 12, 2017|issn=0261-3077}} The novel explores the complex relationship between Cheryl and Clee.

In her review for The New York Times Book Review, reviewer Lauren Groff writes The First Bad Man "makes for a wry, smart companion on any day. It's warm. It has a heartbeat and a pulse. This is a book that is painfully alive."{{cite news|last1=Groff|first1=Lauren|title=Sunday Book Review: 'The First Bad Man,' by Miranda July|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/books/review/the-first-bad-man-by-miranda-july.html|access-date=April 5, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 18, 2015}}

July's second novel, All Fours, was released on May 14, 2024, from Penguin Random House.{{Cite web |last=Lattanzio |first=Ryan |date=2023-10-04 |title=Miranda July Teases Next Book 'All Fours,' About the 'Second Half' of a Woman's Life |url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/miranda-july-new-book-all-fours-art21-clip-1234912544/ |access-date=2024-05-07 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}} The novel follows a 45-year-old perimenopausal woman who, after having an extramarital affair during a road trip, has a sexual awakening.{{Cite web |last=Smallwood |first=Christine |date=2024-05-06 |title=Miranda July's New Novel Will Ignite Your Group Chats |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/miranda-july-all-fours-book-review.html |access-date=2024-05-07 |website=Vulture |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2024-05-13 |title=Standing on the Cliff of Motherhood: On Miranda July's "All Fours" |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/standing-on-the-cliff-of-motherhood-on-miranda-julys-all-fours |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}{{Cite web |date=2024-06-16 |title=You're Not Just an Idea in Your Head: A Conversation with Miranda July |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/youre-not-just-an-idea-in-your-head-a-conversation-with-miranda-july |access-date=2024-06-28 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}} It was shortlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction,{{cite news |title=The 2024 National Book Awards Finalists |url=https://www.nationalbook.org/2024-national-book-awards-finalists-announced/ |access-date=2 January 2025 |work=The National Book Foundation |date=October 2024}} and the Women's Prize for Fiction.{{Cite web |title=Elizabeth Strout and Miranda July are among finalists for the Women's Prize for Fiction |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/elizabeth-strout-miranda-july-finalists-womens-prize-fiction-120403129 |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=ABC News |language=en}}

July was heavily inspired by the riot grrrl movement. She was friends with several of the bands who were part of the movement such as Bikini Kill, Excuse 17, and Heavens to Betsy.

Her films have a common theme of "intimacy." For example, many of her work's titles use pronouns ("me", "you", "we", etc.). July creates "slice of life" films using ordinary characters and giving them attention within her films. She describes this as her being, "desperate to bring people together." However, as she's aged she's become more interested in how people sabotage coming together.

July receives criticism for being too "niche" or trying too hard to seem "quirky." According to The New York Times, "July has come to personify everything infuriating about the Etsy-shopping, Wes Anderson-quoting, McSweeney's-reading, coastal-living category of upscale urban bohemia that flourished in the aughts [sic]." She is often lumped in with directors like Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach, but says she gets more push-back than them due to her films being so emotional and feminine, being called "precious" and "twee." In this same interview with The New York Times, July explains that she likes the directors she's been compared to, but they never get criticized for making films about themselves, though she as a female filmmaker is often labeled "self-obsessed." In a 2015 Guardian article, July adds, "Yes, it's pretty clear that 'whimsical' is a diminishing word, [...] I almost think asking the question is like I'm being asked to gossip about myself. I think it's kind of a female thing, being asked to gossip about yourself. I think I'm maybe done with that."{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/08/miranda-july-had-some-rough-episodes-when-i-was-younger-first-bad-man-interview|title=Miranda July: 'I had some rough episodes when I was younger'|last=Day|first=Elizabeth|date=February 8, 2015|website=The Guardian|access-date=November 15, 2018}}

July also often includes the theme of sex in her films. The New York Times describes this theme "as both a sudden surprise and a way to illuminate the inner lives of her characters". July elaborates: "I was always interested in sex, even as a kid. Sex includes shame and humiliation and fantasies and longing. It's so dense with the kinds of things I'm interested in."

She has also expressed her interest in the rhythm and feeling of film, rather than being "inspired" by other filmmakers, and states that she wouldn't call herself a "cinephile."

In between Me and You and Everyone We Know and The Future, July began to incorporate some of the oddball avant-garde things she had done in theater performance into her films, some of which was easier to swallow on stage but not on screen, such as the talking cat in The Future, which she was later criticized for by viewers.

July also has a strong interest in clothing and costume. She served as the lookbook creative director for Uniqlo UT's 2019 clothing line.{{cite web |url=http://thesource.com/2019/03/18/uniqlo-ut-ss19-wear-your-world-campaign/ |title=Uniqlo UT Heads to London for SS19 'Wear Your World' Campaign |author=Higgins, Keenan |date=March 18, 2019 |website=The Source |access-date=August 1, 2019 }}

July is married to filmmaker and visual artist Mike Mills, with whom she has a non-binary child,{{cite web |url= https://www.npr.org/2024/12/19/g-s1-39066/miranda-july-talks-all-fours-and-the-risks-and-rewards-of-changing-your-life |title='Kajillionaire' Is a Queer Film Without Buzzwords |last=Gillespie |first=Katherine |date=October 29, 2020 |website=Paper |access-date=July 20, 2021}} born in March 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.huckmagazine.com/features/judd-apatow-vs-miranda-july|title=Judd Apatow vs. Miranda July|work=Huck Magazine|date=January 5, 2013|access-date=June 18, 2013}}{{cite magazine|last=Hiebert|first=Paul|url=http://flavorwire.com/95618/miranda-july-makes-art-that-requires-people|title=Miranda July Makes Art That Requires People|magazine=Flavorwire|date=June 2, 2010|access-date=December 5, 2011}} July and Mills met at both of their first Sundance Festival premieres in 2005,{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/11/miranda-july-interview-i-always-jump-in-to-stop-injustice|title=Miranda July: 'I always jump in when there's an injustice'|last=Nicholson|first=Rebecca|date=February 11, 2017|website=The Guardian|access-date=November 15, 2018}} and married in mid-2009. In July 2022, July announced that she and Mills were separated romantically, although they continue to live near each other and co-parent.{{cite web |last1=Graham |first1=Annabel |title=Miranda July Wrote Herself Out of a Midlife Crisis With 'All Fours' |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/miranda-july-all-fours-book-interview |website=W Magazine |access-date=20 January 2025 |language=en |date=17 May 2024 |quote=(July) moved from their shared home into this one we’re in now, just behind the studio space she’s rented for over twenty years.}}

In a 2007 interview with Bust magazine, July spoke of the importance which feminism has had in her life, saying, "What's confusing about [being a feminist]? It's just being pro your ability to do what you need to do. It doesn't mean you don't love your boyfriend or whatever{{nbsp}}... When I say 'feminist', I mean that in the most complex, interesting, exciting way!"{{cite web |url=http://feministing.com/archives/007873.html#comments |title=Miranda July in Bust |date=October 8, 2007 |website=Feministing |access-date=July 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071128122304/http://feministing.com/archives/007873.html#comments |archive-date=November 28, 2007}} In a later interview in 2017 on Idaho's Public Television station, July explained that once she started confronting the racial issues in current day politics, she started contacting publishers and revising her work, realizing that not everything she had said was racially and politically sound.

She changed her last name to "July" when she was 15, after a character based on her in a story by her high school best friend, Johanna Fateman. She changed her name legally in her early 20s. July describes her family as very "DIY", which probably accounts for some of July's makeshift style. Therefore, when July wanted to change her last name, her father was very accepting of the decision. Her father was a workaholic, which is something she believes she picked up from him. Her family also dabbled in practicing New Age religions and discussed spirituality while she was growing up.

• Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) – wrote, directed, and acted
• The Future (2011) – wrote, directed, and acted
• Kajillionaire (2020) – wrote and directed

• I Started Out with Nothing and I Still Have Most of It LeftKaleem Aftab, "[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/miranda-july-a-renaissance-woman-with-a-bright-future-2371945.html Miranda July: A renaissance woman with a bright future]", The Independent, October 17, 2011. Retrieved November 11, 2017
• Atlanta (1996) – appeared on Audio-Cinematic Mix Tape (Peripheral Produce)
• The Amateurist (1998)
• A Shape Called Horse (1999) – appeared on Video Fanzine #1 (Kill Rock Stars)
• Nest of Tens (1999) (Peripheral Produce)
• Getting Stronger Every Day (2001) – 6 mins 30 secs,Xan Brooks, "[https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/mar/06/artsfeatures4 Miranda July]", The Guardian, March 6, 2001. Retrieved November 11, 2017 appeared on Peripheral Produce: All-Time Greatest Hits: a collection of experimental films and videos (Peripheral Produce)
• Haysha Royko (2003) – 4 mins"[http://www.vdb.org/titles/haysha-royko Haysha Royko: Miranda July]", Video Data Bank. Retrieved November 11, 2017
• Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? (2005) – appeared on Wholphin issue 1
• Somebody (2014), Miu Miu's Women's Tales 8 – 10 mins 14 secs
• Miranda July Introduces the Miranda (2014) – advertisement for a handbag designed by July and Welcome Companions. With music by JD Samson.

• Fire of Love (2022) – narration by July
• Jesus' Son (1999) (Lions Gate Entertainment) – acted
• The Center of the World (2001) – co-wrote story
• Madeline's Madeline (2018) – acted
• Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk (2017) – appearance as herself
• The Portland Girl Convention (1996) by Emily B. Kingan – documentary
• The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal (2001) by Matt McCormick – with narration by July{{cite news |url=https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/dvds/Content?oid=297449 |title=Anti-Graffiti Artists |author=Wagner, Annie |date=August 23, 2007 |newspaper=The Stranger |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418034019/https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/dvds/Content?oid=297449 |archive-date=April 18, 2018 |url-status=live }}

• "Get Up" by Sleater-Kinney (1999) – directed by July{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/articles/6413-get-up/ |title=Get Up: Sleater-Kinney's last show: A retrospective |website=PitchforkMedia.com |date=August 28, 2006 |access-date=August 1, 2019 }}
• "Top Ranking" by Blonde Redhead (2007) – July acts in the video, directed by Mike Mills{{cite web |url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/43157-blonde-redhead-top-ranking |title =Video: Blonde Redhead: "Top Ranking" |website=PitchforkMedia.com |date=May 24, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070724132847/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/43157-blonde-redhead-top-ranking |archive-date=July 24, 2007 }}
• "Hurry On Home" by Sleater-Kinney (2019) – directed, plus a cameo appearance{{cite web |url=http://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/sleater-kinney_share_lyric_video_for_new_st._vincent-produced_song_hurry_on/ |title=Sleater-Kinney Share Lyric Video for New St. Vincent-Produced Song "Hurry On Home" |author=Roberts, Christopher |date=May 29, 2019 |website=Under the Radar |access-date=August 1, 2019 }}

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• "Jack and Al" (Fall 2002) (Mississippi Review)
• "The Moves" (Spring 2003) (Tin House)
• "This Person" (Spring 2003) (Bridge Magazine){{cite web |last1=July |first1=Miranda |title=This Person |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10557289 |publisher=NPR |access-date=4 October 2020 |language=en |date=June 4, 2007 |quote=Summer Books 2007: Excerpts: 'No One Belongs Here More Than You'}}
• "Birthmark" (Spring 2003) (Paris Review)
• "Frances Gabe's Self Cleaning House" (Fall 2003) (Nest)
• "It Was Romance" (Fall 2003) (Harvard Review)
• "Making Love in 2003" (Fall 2003) (Paris Review)
• "The Man on the Stairs" (Spring/Summer 2004) (Fence Magazine])
• "The Boy from Lam Kien" Los Angeles: Cloverfield Press, 2005. {{ISBN|978-0976047827}}.
• "The Shared Patio" (Winter 2005) (Zoetrope: All-Story)[https://web.archive.org/web/20080121062542/http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=292 The Shared Patio] (Full text)
• "Something That Needs Nothing" (September 18, 2006) (The New Yorker)
• "Majesty" (September 28, 2006) (Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
• "The Swim Team" (January 2007) (Harper's Magazine)
• "The Metal Bowl" (September 4, 2017) (The New Yorker)

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• Love Diamond (1998–2000)
• The Swan Tool (2000–2002)
• How I Learned to Draw (2002–2003)
• Things We Don't Understand and Are Definitely Not Going to Talk About (2006–2008)
• New Society (2015)

• 10 Million Hours a Mile (1997) (Kill Rock Stars)
• The Binet-Simon Test (1998) (Kill Rock Stars)

• Margie Ruskie Stops Time EP (1996) with music by The Need (Kill Rock Stars){{cite web |last1=July |first1=Miranda |title=Margie Ruskie Stops Time, by Miranda July with The Need |url=https://mirandajuly.bandcamp.com/album/margie-ruskie-stops-time |website=Miranda July with The Need |publisher=Bandcamp |access-date=4 October 2020}}
• Girls on Dates split EP with IQU (1999) (K Records)

• 1998: Andrea Frank Foundation Grant, given to nine American artists each year.
• 2002: Creative Capital Emerging Fields Award{{cite web |url=http://creative-capital.org/grantees/view/147/project:119 |title=Miranda July: Emerging Fields |year=2002 |publisher=Creative Capital |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822180832/http://www.creative-capital.org/index.php?url=grantees%2Fview%2F147%2Fproject%3A119 |archive-date=August 22, 2017 |url-status=dead |access-date=January 18, 2017 }}
• 2006: You, Me, and Everyone We Know received the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at Sundance.{{cite web|url=http://mirandajuly.com/|title=Miranda July – Home|website=MirandaJuly.com|access-date=November 15, 2018}}
• 2007: No One Belongs Here More Than You won the Frank O'Connor award.
• 2016: July was one of 683 artists and executives invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as a writer.{{Cite news|url=http://www.oscars.org/news/academy-invites-683-membership|title=NEW MEMBERS 2016: ACADEMY INVITES 683 TO MEMBERSHIP|date=June 29, 2016|work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|access-date=April 24, 2017}}
• 2023: Peabody Award for her job as a narrator on the hit documentary Fire of Love.

• {{cite web|work=The Onion|title=Miranda July Called Before Congress To Explain Exactly What Her Whole Thing Is|url=http://www.theonion.com/articles/miranda-july-called-before-congress-to-explain-exa|date=January 21, 2012|access-date=January 26, 2012}} (Satirical piece)

• List of female film and television directors

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• {{Cite web |date=2024 |title=Lindy Hough|url=https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/author/lindy-hough/ |website=northatlanticbooks.com}}

• Czudaj, Antje. [https://cup.columbia.edu/book/miranda-julys-intermedial-art/9783837633696 Miranda July's Intermedial Art: The Creative Class Between Self-Help and Individualism]; Columbia University Press, 2016.
• {{cite news|first=J.|last=Hoberman|author-link=J. Hoberman|work=The Village Voice|title=In The Future, Miranda July Grows Up|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-07-27/film/in-the-future-miranda-july-grows-up|date=July 27, 2011|access-date=January 26, 2012}}
• Mörke, Luise. "[https://cinea.be/an-eerily-vulnerable-thing-miranda-july-and-the-failure-of-profundity/ An Eerily Vulnerable Thing. Miranda July and the Failure of Profundity]," Photogénie. Retrieved February 16, 2021.

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• [http://www.joanie4jackie.com/ Joanie 4 Jackie] : "Big Miss Moviola Chainletter"
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• Ed Champion. [http://www.edrants.com/segundo/miranda-july-bss-405 Miranda July Interview] - The Bat Segundo Show No. 405

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