Alycia Pirmohamed

Alycia Pirmohamed is the author of the debut poetry collection, Another Way to Split Water, which was published by Polygon (UK) and YesYes Books (US) in 2022. Her debut nonfiction book, Shorelines: Memory, migration, and the selves we become, won the Nan Shepherd Prize and is forthcoming with Canongate in 2026. Alycia is the recipient of several awards, including a Pushcart Prize, the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize and the 2020 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. She 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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