Meet the Author
Miranda Cowley Heller
Miranda Cowley Heller was raised in New York City and Cape Cod. Her debut novel, The Paper Palace, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick. This is her first collection of poetry.
What people are saying...
"A breathtaking collection. These poems map a woman’s life with extraordinary precision and skill. Heartbreaking, funny, poignant, hopeful . . . this is poetry you didn’t know you needed but will change the way you see the world.”
Daisy Goodwin
author of The American Heiress
“Raw and intimate . . . full of female life—a note scribbled to a son, a hummingbird in the garden, a lover walking away. Surprising and captivating.”
Jenny Jackson
author of Pineapple Street
"How I loved this. A collection of poems that manages to capture a woman’s life in its entirety with all its joy, mystery, and harsh, unexpected endings. What the Deep Water Knows broke my heart and healed it too. Fans of The Paper Palace will adore it."
Clare Leslie Hall
author of Broken Country
“Miranda’s poems are living, breathing words that are raw, honest, and thought-provoking. Reading this collection felt like a key turning a tiny hidden lock within. Her poems are brilliant and intentional, you will no doubt come back to these pages time and time again.”
Jessica Urlichs
author of Beautiful Chaos
“Takes you on a shiningly intimate journey . . . Silken and barbed all at once.”
Yael van der Wouden
author of The Safekeep
“A life told in astonishing, unerring verses. The early poems are beautifully opaque, stones glimpsed in cloudy water. Lyrical, brutal, devastating, visionary—through verse a woman’s life emerges, gathers itself, is dismantled, and settles again. These stories are as precise and arresting as icy water.”
Sonya Walger
author of Lion
