Alycia Pirmohamed

Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born writer based in Scotland. Shorelines is her first work of non-fiction, for which she won the Nan Shepherd Prize. Her debut poetry collection, Another Way to Split Water, was shortlisted for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year by the Saltire Society. She is the recipient of several other awards, including a Pushcart Prize, the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize and the 2020 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Alycia is the co-founder of the Scottish BPOC Writers Network, and she currently teaches on the Creative Writing master’s programme at the University of Cambridge.

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