Poppy White

Poppy White has been writing from a very young age. In 2024, she won acclaim for her short stories. Several of these have been published in Australian anthologies. Her story, WATER BABY was short-listed for the ADA CAMBRIDGE BIOGRAPHICAL PROSE PRIZE. Her story, TIDEPOOL, was short-listed for the TASMANIAN WRITER’S PRIZE.

Her writing explores her deep and rich lived experience, as she endeavours to expose the beauty, humour and grief that lies within the fault lines of our human condition. Poppy’s prose is lyrical and poetic in its descriptions of time and place, whilst her dialogue brings a raw, unfiltered honesty to her work.

Poppy has been a primary school teacher for seventeen years. An occupational hazard is her ever-growing collection of picture storybooks. These days, when Poppy is not reading and writing, she is teaching performing arts. Poppy writes, directs, and coordinates large scale theatre productions in central Victoria, where she lives with her husband, two children and a cheeky miniature foxy.

Tiger Moth is her debut novel of adult fiction. She is currently completing her second novel, Taking Apart Marigold Hart.