Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet based in the UK. Currently, she teaches on the Creative Writing master’s programme at the University of Cambridge. In 2022, her award-winning debut poetry collection, Another Way to Split Water, was published with YesYes Books and Polygon Books. In 2023, Alycia won the Nan Shepherd Prize for her collection of essays A Beautiful and Vital Place, forthcoming with Canongate.

Alycia is the author of the chapbooks Hinge (ignitionpress), both a 2020 Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Recommendation and shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award, and Faces that Fled the Wind, selected by Camille Rankine for the 2018 BOAAT Press Chapbook Prize. In 2021, her chapbook Second Memory, a creative non-fiction piece co-authored with Pratyusha, was published with Baseline Press (Canada) and Guillemot Press (UK).

Alycia has received support from the Individual Artist Program via Calgary Arts Development, the Royal Society of Literature, and an Open Project Grant from Creative Scotland as co-founder of the Scottish BPOC Writers Network. She is the winner of the 2020 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, and the recent recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the 2019 CBC Poetry Award, the Gulf Coast Poetry Contest, the 92Y Discovery Contest, and the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Award. Along with poetry, Alycia writes poetry criticism, reviews, and lyric essays.

Previously, she was Junior Anniversary Fellow at IASH (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities), University of Edinburgh and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Liverpool, where she co-organised the Ledbury Poetry Critics programme. Alycia received an MFA from University of Oregon and a PhD from University of Edinburgh.

Alycia is a co-editor of They Rise Like A Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets (Blue Oak Press, 2022), and Re·creation: An Anthology of Queer Poetry (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2022). She also curated and edited Our Time is a Garden: new nature writing by women and nonbinary writers of colour (IASH, 2022) and Ceremony (Tapsalteerie, 2019), a BAME anthology of new Scottish Writing.