GEORGIA POPLETT

Georgia Poplett is a writer, academic and editor who is currently completing her PhD in Creative Writing and Medical Humanities at Durham University. She is an expert on the literary representation of postpartum psychosis with a specialism in Gothic literature. For her doctoral thesis, she researched the cultural history of postpartum psychosis and created an original Gothic novel imagining the lived experience of postpartum psychosis through the idea of the haunted house. Her work is especially concerned with how we think and speak about difference in the context of maternal mental health, and how these experiences of difference have been understood or represented in the past. Her historical fiction takes an interest in matrilineal inheritance, intergenerational trauma, queer social history and the stigma around women’s bodies. She has presented on her research around the world, most recently chairing a roundtable in Philadelphia at the 2025 Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. She is currently working on her first book.

Georgia studied at the Universities of Exeter in the UK and Alberta in Canada before earning her MFA at Birkbeck in London. She worked as a Waterstones bookseller during her MFA and joined the publishing industry shortly afterwards, editing non-fiction at Profile Books. She has worked as a literary researcher for New Writing North and consulted on aspects of her research for TV. Her research has been published in academic journals such as the Modern Humanities Research Association: Working Papers in the Humanities.

Georgia frequently writes and reviews for publications including The Mechanics’ Institute Review, The Bee, Lucy Writers (based out of the University of Cambridge), and The Polyphony. She is also a co-investigator for the University of Durham IAS-funded project Mater-morphosis, a network dedicated to researching cultural, medical, and literary understandings of ‘matrescence’, the process of becoming a mother.

Originally from Kent, Georgia now lives in London.