Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born author currently based in Edinburgh. Her writing spans poetry, creative nonfiction, and literary criticism. In 2022, her collection Another Way to Split Water was published with Polygon Books, and in 2023, she won the Nan Shepherd Prize for her debut book of nonfiction, A Beautiful and Vital Place, forthcoming with…
Storytelling has always been at the heart of everything Marlene does. Whether through her work as an author, her business in marketing and storytelling, or her roles within organisations that bring people together, she has always been drawn to the way stories shape our world and our connections within it. With a passion for storytelling…
Tom is a writer who lives in Edinburgh. His work is mostly creative non-fiction in response to art and place, and he regularly collaborates with artists and cultural organisations. Tom’s books include: Walking: Documents of Contemporary Art (Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press, 2024); To an island in a loch on an island in a…
Born and raised in Australia, S.J. Groenewegen has written numerous SF essays, short stories, and novels, and often appears at SFF conventions as a panellist and moderator. S.J.’s latest novel, The Disinformation War, is speculative fiction published by Goldsmiths Press/GoldSF. With a background in law enforcement/criminal justice, mostly in intelligence analysis, S.J. has worked within…
Ray Anyasi is a multiple published author, poet, comic creator and screenwriter. He is the organiser of the Rayany Creators Film Festival happening in Aberdeen. Between 2015 and 2022, Ray was Director of Programs for Lagos Comic Con and Rendacon Animation Film Festival.
Michelle Hodkin is the New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly, and USA Today bestselling author of the Mara Dyer Trilogy and its companion series The Shaw Confessions, which have sold just under one million copies worldwide. Her books have been published in sixteen languages, and have been praised by the Los Angeles Times, TIME Magazine, and were…
Helen Sedgwick is a cross-genre author of literary fiction, science fiction and folk horror. She writes about human connection across time and space, juxtaposing science with the supernatural and realism with ghost story. Her debut, The Comet Seekers (Harvill Secker 2016), was selected as a best book of 2016 by The Herald and her sci-fi novel The Growing…
I live in Edinburgh where I write about the world of people who die with no next-of-kin. I’ve published three novels, written for BBC Radio 4 and been selected by Val McDermid as one of the most compelling LGBTQ+ authors working today. Come say hello on twitter @mspaulsonellis or https://www.marypaulsonellis.co.uk
Elizabeth joined the SoA in June 2022 and works part-time in the operations team running payroll for the organisation and supporting with HR tasks. She is the staff liaison for the SoAiS.
