ALYCIA PIRMOHAMED

Canadian-born poet living in Scotland. Alycia has published two poetry pamphlets, Faces that Fled the Wind and Hinge, won multiple awards, including the CBC Literary Prize for poetry in 2019 and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award in 2020.  She is co-founder with Jay Gao of the Scottish BAME Writers Network (SBWN), “an advocacy and professional development group for writers who identify as BAME (Black, Asian, minority ethnic), mixed-race or POC (people of colour) with a connection to Scotland”.

FEATURED BOOK: Another Way to Split Water. Alycia’s first full poetry collection, written in English publ. Birlinn Ltd, 2022. An homage to family and the natural world. How identity reforms and transforms throughout generations, through stories told and retold, imagined and reimagined.