Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet based in Scotland. She won the Nan Shepherd Prize for her nonfiction debut Shorelines (forthcoming with Canongate in 2026) and is the author of the poetry collection Another Way to Split Water (Polygon Books and YesYes Books). In 2026, Alycia received the Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship with Creative Scotland and DG Unlimited. Her second collection of poems Then the Lake Shifts is forthcoming in spring 2027.

Alycia is part of 'field notes collective', a nature writing project alongside Jessica J. Lee, Nina Mingya Powles and Pratyusha. this too is a glistening, their collaborative pamphlet, was published by Bitter Melon 苦瓜 in 2024. Her other works include the pamphlets Hinge and Faces that Fled the Wind, Second Memory, which was co-authored with Pratyusha, and Hertz, which was co-authored with Hannah Copley.

Alycia is the co-founder of the Scottish BPOC Writers Network and a co-organiser of the Ledbury Poetry Critics Program. She is a tutor at Granta Writers’ Workshops and she currently teaches on the Creative Writing master's programme at the University of Cambridge.