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Miranda Popkey

Biography

Miranda Popkey

Miranda Popkey was born in Santa Cruz, California in 1987. She graduated with a BA in Humanities from Yale in 2009 and with an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018. She has written for, among other outlets, The New Republic, The New Yorker‘s Page-Turner blog, the Paris Review Daily, The Hairpin, The Awl, GQ and New York magazine’s The Cut.

Miranda Popkey

Books by Miranda Popkey

Topics of Conversation
by Miranda Popkey - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Composed almost exclusively of conversations between women --- the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves --- TOPICS OF CONVERSATION careens through 20 years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. In exchanges about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage, Miranda Popkey touches upon desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy and guilt.