![]() After a few years of proposals, rewrites, and revisions, her first book, the young-adult thriller “Fracture,” was released in 2012. Miranda began writing full time after the birth of her two children. ![]() “That love of science kind of funneled into writing my first books, which all contained weird scientific elements in their plots.” “Teaching put me back in touch with the elements that made me initially fall in love with science,” she says. Miranda worked in biotech in Boston for two years after graduation before moving with her husband, Luis Miranda ’01, to North Carolina, where she spent two years as a high school science teacher. ![]() You start with a blank slate then each step gets you closer to a solution.” “Each book draft is an experiment where I can assess what’s working and what’s not. “There are a lot of similarities in the process,” Miranda says. Both careers share a trial-and-error approach to achieving success, she believes. ![]() Instead, she became a successful fiction author whose book, “All the Missing Girls,” is a New York Times best-seller. Megan Colpitts Miranda ’02, who graduated from MIT with a degree in biology, intended to pursue a career in biotechnology. ![]()
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