Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet based in Scotland. In 2023, she won the Nan Shepherd Prize for her nonfiction debut Shorelines, forthcoming with Canongate in 2026. She is the author of the poetry collection Another Way to Split Water.
She 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, and Second Memory, which was co-authored with Pratyusha.
Alycia is the co-founder of the Scottish BPOC Writers Network, a co-organiser of the Ledbury Poetry Critics Program, and she currently teaches on the Creative Writing master's programme at the University of Cambridge.