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Michelle Miller
Michelle Miller is an American writer and author of The Underwriting, an internationally-acclaimed 2015 satire of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.

Miller was born October 12, 1984 in Asheville, NC. She resides between London, England and Asheville, NC. Miller focuses on the genres of fiction and satire. She is a graduate of Stanford University (BA) and the Stanford Graduate School of Business (MBA).

Career
Miller began writing while an MBA student at Stanford. She published two young adult novels under the pseudonym Sadie Hayes while working at JP Morgan. She left that job in 2013 to write The Underwriting, a satirical thriller about Wall Street and Silicon Valley based on her experiences.

She initially raised VC funding and published the work as an online serial. The story was subsequently bought by Penguin and published as a novel in 2015. It was translated into 16 languages and developed for TV.

In 2019, Amazon announced a deal to purchase the digital publishing, audio and television rights to Miller’s story collection, The Fairer Sex. The first volume of stories was released via Amazon Original Stories in February 2019.

Views
In a 2014 article for Huffington Post, Miller coined the term ‘muppie’ to describe the would-be yuppie subset of the Millennial generation

In a 2015 interview, Miller told The Times that the key to being a successful woman in business is to be a 7 out of 10 – attractive enough to be noticed, but not too attractive.

In a 2015 YouTube video and article for RedBook, Miller said “to write from a man’s perspective, I shut off 80% of my brain and commit half of what’s left to sex.”

In a 2016, Tedx Talk, Miller said the world needs more femininity, which she defined as “experience-orientation” as opposed to masculine “results-orientation” from both women and men.