Poppy Nwosu is an author of young adult fiction.

She has published three contemporary novels. Her debut, Making Friends with Alice Dyson, was shortlisted for the 2019 Readings Young Adult Book Prize and 2018 Adelaide festival Unpublished Manuscript Award. Her second novel, Taking Down Evelyn Tait, was shortlisted for the 2021 SPN Book of the Year award, and her latest novel, Road Tripping with Pearl Nash, was listed in the CBCA Book of the Year Notables for 2022 and was awarded the SA Writers Fellowship residency at Varuna Writers House in 2019. She was also awarded the Max Fatchen Fellowship at the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature in 2022.

Poppy is also the creator of the YA anthology Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales. 

Growing up surrounded by cane fields and rainforest, Poppy studied music at university before living overseas in Ireland. She is now based in Adelaide, Australia. 

Poppy also writes dark fantasy for adult readers under the name PJ Nwosu, which can be found at www.pjnwosu.com

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