Phoebe Potts
A native of Brooklyn, where everyone was indignant before breakfast, Phoebe Potts learned to tell stories to get her family to like her and to understand thorny issues. In Too Fat for China, Potts uses humor and honesty to tell the irreverent story of the terrible things she did for love.
Her comedic theater performance debuted on National Adoption Day, Nov. 23, 2019 and is a sequel to Potts’ graphic memoir, Good Eggs (Harper, 2010), which charts her travails with infertility and the endless rounds of treatments and miscarriages she and her husband endured. Roz Chast, the New Yorker cartoonist, called Potts’ memoir “sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always honest, intelligent, and completely involving.”
Potts’ day jobs have included union organizing, public art after school programs and teaching and learning Torah with children and adults through “Visual Midrash.” Potts lives with her family in Gloucester, Massachusetts.