Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet based in Scotland. She is the author of the poetry collection Another Way to Split Water (YesYes Books), and in 2023, she won the Nan Shepherd Prize for her nonfiction debut A Beautiful and Vital Place, forthcoming with Canongate. Alycia is also the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the 2019 CBC Poetry Award, the Gulf Coast Poetry Contest, and the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Award. Along with poetry, Alycia writes poetry criticism, reviews, and lyric essays. She currently teaches on the Creative Writing master’s programme at the University of Cambridge.