Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet living in Scotland, who teaches Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge.
[1] Faces that Fled the Wind, Pirmohamed's first poetry pamphlet, was published by BOAAT Press in 2019.
[6] In 2023, Pirmohamed received the Nan Shepherd Prize for a collection of essays called A Beautiful and Vital Place, along with a contract with Canongate Books and an offer of literary representation from Caro Clarke at Portobello Literary.
The essays are about the psychological aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks for a young Muslim girl, and her shifting understanding of the vulnerability of her body as she moved through Midwestern Canada, the Pacific Northwest, East Africa, and the UK.
The organization, founded in 2018 by Pirmohamed and Jay Gao, "is an advocacy and professional development group for writers who identify as BPOC (Black, Asian, minority ethnic), mixed-race or POC (people of colour) with a connection to Scotland.