Edy Poppy and Curtis Sittenfeld

The Global Short Story

★ This event is ASL interpreted!

Let’s talk about the short story with two acclaimed novelists from different continents who have new story collections! Coming to the Twin Cities from Australia, Norwegian writer and performance artist Edy Poppy offers a fractured vision of sexuality and alienation in her new collection Coming. Apart., which continues exploring the stark, poetic voice that made her debut novel Anatomy. Monotony. a cult sensation in Europe.  She’ll be joined by Minnesota’s own Curtis Sittenfeld, whose sharp wit has dissected the American brand of alienation since her first novel Prep (and in many other bestselling books since), and who peels back layer after layer of our inner lives in Show Don’t Tell, her second collection of stories. 

About the Author

Edy Poppy grew up on a farm in Bø, Telemark, Norway. She moved to Montpellier when she was seventeen and spent several years in France before moving to London where she worked with art, fashion, film and writing. In 2005 she published her first novel Anatomy. Monotony., which was translated into Italian, Finnish, German, Polish, and English. It won the contest for best love story by Gyldendal. Poppy has lived in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Lipari, Reykjavik, and Rio, and now calls Australia home.

Curtis Sittenfeld’s New York Times bestselling books have been translated into thirty languages and twice selected as Reese’s Book Club picks; they include the novels Prep, American Wife, Eligible, Rodham, and Romantic Comedy, as well as the story collection You Think It, I’ll Say It. Sittenfeld’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Best American Short Stories, of which she was the 2020 guest editor. She lives with her family in Minneapolis.