Mia Colleran

Mia is a freelance editor specialising in fiction and memoir with experience at HarperCollins Publishers and a New York literary agency.
She was an editor at 4th Estate for three years in London where she honed her editorial abilities over countless manuscripts (both non-fiction and fiction). Books Mia has worked on include A Cook’s Book by Nigel Slater, Easy Wins by Anna Jones, Good Girls by Hadley Freeman, and The Secret of Cooking by Bee Wilson.
Mia is passionate about helping authors find their voice. She particularly likes to work with debut authors on this and helps them to work out the big questions that inform their writing. She helps authors to find their voice by proposing writing exercises, suggesting literary influences and probing at the seams a story. Mia also has experience pitching books for acquisition in-house and therefore can recommend comparable titles to help place a work in progress, something that is especially valuable for authors seeking the traditional publishing route.
She has lots of hands-on experience working with authors from debuts to Sunday Times bestsellers, and she has interviewed many at book festivals. She has also worked as a freelance book reviewer for The Paris Review, Guardian, Irish Times, and others, and therefore is experienced at accurately distilling a book down to the bare bones and identifying what makes good writing truly stand out.
Before working as an editor she was an award-winning bookseller for several years and she was also the recipient of the Marian Keyes Young Writer Award.

If you’d like to work with Mia, get in touch with our Writer Support team; tell us about your book and what you’d like support with, and we’ll help you identify your next steps.