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Miranda Popkey
(b.1987)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 recommends
The Dog of the North (2023)
Elizabeth McKenzie
"Darkly absurd and slyly insightful, Elizabeth McKenzie's The Dog of the North charms and delights even as it wrestles with childhood trauma, bodily indignity, and sudden death. This is a whirlwind picaresque, a genuinely comic novel, and - most surprising and most satisfying - a potent, poignant investigation into grief and the myriad ways we flailingly, failingly attempt to avoid the pains of loss."
Cool for America (2020)
Andrew Martin
"Andrew Martin's Cool for America is a collection as intensely pleasurable as it is uncomfortably potent. I felt myself growing uneasy as I turned the pages?each cheerfully aimless, morally compromised, defensively witty character cutting closer and closer to the bone. Martin's stories are queasily plausible?or they would be if they weren't also so funny and fun to read."
