​Poppy Nwosu is an author of YA fiction.  

Her debut novel, Making Friends with Alice Dyson, was shortlisted for the 2018 Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award, and the 2019 Readings Young Adult Book Prize. She was also awarded the 2019 Writers SA Varuna the Writers' House Fellowship for Young Writers.

Poppy's second novel, Taking Down Evelyn Tait, is due to be published in April 2020.

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.
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Poppy Nwosu is represented by Jane Novak of the Jane Novak Literary Agency.​​

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