READ BOOK Girl, World: Stories By Alex Poppe
Anastacia Iacono
I write trusting the reader to make connections while, at the same time, accounting for the fact that he/she/they might not. For example, some readers will know who the person disappearing young women in Duende is by the end of the novella. If readers miss those clues, they can still follow the main narrative. Not knowing who is disappearing young girls works on a secondary level: I intended it as a societal critique because too many cases of missing girls go unsolved, especially if those who are missing lead unconventional lifestyles.
Alex Poppe is the author of four works of fiction: Duende (Regal House Publishing, 2022), Jinwar and Other Stories (Cune Press, 2022), Moxie (Tortoise Books, 2019), and Girl, World (Laughing Fire Press, 2017). Girl, World was named a 35 Over 35 Debut Book Award winner, First Horizon Award finalist, Montaigne Medal finalist, was shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize, and was awarded an Honorable Mention in General Fiction from the Eric Hoffer Awards. Jinwar and Other Stories was an International Book Awards finalist. Poppe completed her third and fourth works of fiction with support from Can Serrat International Art Residency and Duplo-Linea De Costa Artist in Residency programs. In 2021, she was an artist-in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, where she began a memoir through essays about her time living and working in Iraq. When she is not dining with pistol-packing Kurdish hitmen or being thrown off the back of food aid trucks, she writes. www.alexpoppe.com
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