Georgia Eleni Poplett is a writer, academic, and editor. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Warwick, where she is also the Widening Participation Officer for the Warwick Writing Programme and convenes Warwick Thursdays. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Medical Humanities from Durham and is an expert on the representation of postpartum psychosis with a specialism in Gothic literature. She was previously a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Exeter.
During her PhD, she researched the history of postpartum psychosis; the original Gothic novel which emerged from this research, She Herself is a Haunted House, was a finalist for the 2025 Deborah Rogers Award. 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 writes for and has been interviewed in publications including Mslexia, The Mechanics’ Institute Review, The Bee, Lucy Writers, and The Polyphony.
Before becoming an academic, Georgia worked as an editor for Profile Books and as a Waterstones bookseller. She has also worked as a literary researcher for New Writing North and consulted on aspects of her research for Netflix shows, podcasts, National Theatre of Scotland-funded plays, and more. She welcomes collaboration and conversation about any aspect of her work.
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