Mireille Harper

Mireille Harper is the author of Timelines from Black History, a beautifully curated celebration of the leaders, legacies and legends who shaped Black history (Dorling Kindersley). Since its publication in 2020, the book has sold nearly 60,000 copies across the UK, US, Canada and beyond. She has also contributed to three further DK titles — Timelines of Everyone, The Black History Book and Migrations — and contributed to The Feminist Book Society’s anthology This Is How We Come Back Stronger (2021).

A writer for over ten years, Mireille has written for British Vogue, Glamour Magazine, Good Housekeeping, GUAP, Nataal, TOKEN Magazine and more, with a particular focus on arts and culture, literature and film, and race and identity. In 2020, Mireille’s created a post on the topic of non-optical allyship, which went viral and shaped international discussion on anti-racism, and was subsequently published by British Vogue. Her piece for Glamour, “Why Does Cassie’s Trauma Need to Be Seen to Be Believed?”, won the Write to End Violence Prize in 2024.

Alongside her writing career, Mireille has worked in publishing for eight years. She is Editorial Director of Tonic, an imprint of Bloomsbury, where she publishes wellbeing books, and she also runs an editorial and communications consultancy, working with numerous organisations including Harewood House and Ian Fleming Publications Ltd.

Mireille is currently developing her next children’s book — a history of the Caribbean — with Nosy Crow, scheduled for 2027. She is also writing her first novel, a dystopian corporate satire.

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