​Poppy Nwosu is an Australian YA author.  

Her debut novel, Making Friends with Alice Dyson, will be published by Wakefield Press in 2019.

Poppy Nwosu was shortlisted for the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature for an unpublished manuscript and is represented by Jane Novak of the Jane Novak Literary Agency.​

Growing up in central North Queensland, Poppy enjoyed a thoroughly wild childhood surrounded by rainforest and cane fields. ​After studying music at university, she moved overseas to Ireland, where she spent two years visiting stunning Europe. 
These days Poppy and her husband still love to travel, but they also like to come home again to their house in Adelaide near the sea.
 
Poppy’s quite obsessed with stories, books, movies, writing and music.

​Making Friends with Alice Dyson is her first novel.

All photography on this site is my own.
Serious art is by R.B.T or M.B.T.
Cute silly art is by the lovely Gus Nwosu.
​Illustration of Teddy and Alice by @icandrawthingz