Miranda Cowley Heller, WHAT THE DEEP WATER KNOWS: Poems

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Zibby Publishing author alert! Zibby chats with #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE PAPER PALACE, Miranda Cowley Heller, about her breathtaking and intimate debut poetry collection, WHAT THE DEEP WATER KNOWS. They discuss how the poems, written over 15 years, unintentionally form a powerful narrative arc about womanhood, motherhood, marriage, heartbreak, and self-reclamation. Miranda reflects on her early love of poetry, her literary lineage, and how poetry ultimately led her to fiction. She also opens up about her personal life—including the dissolution of her marriage—and how writing helped her find clarity and healing.

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1:16.9	Miranda Callie Heller is the author of What the Deepwater Knows poems. And I am so excited because
1:23.8	at Zippy Publishing, we are publishing this book by Miranda Callie Heller, and it is so good.
1:31.3	We have the U.S. rights, and I could not be more excited. You must go check this out.
1:36.2	You'll remember Miranda Callie Heller because her debut novel was The Paper Palace, which was a number one New York Times bestseller in the U.S., a Sunday Times bestseller in the U.K., and was long listed for the Women's Prize. It was also a Reese's book club pick. She has worked as senior vice president and head of drama series at HBO, developing and overseeing such shows as The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, the Wire, Deadwood, and Big Love, among others.
2:06.5	This is her first collection of poetry, and again, we are so thrilled to be publishing it.
2:10.6	If you loved at the Paper Palace, you will be obsessed with this book.
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