Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature

Durre Shahwar Author

Durre Shahwar is a writer and PhD researcher. She is the co-editor of Gathering (404 Ink) and also the co-editor of Just So You Know (Parthian Books). She is a Future Wales Fellow, looking at climate justice through art and the Co-Founder of ‘Where I’m Coming From’ open mic. Shahwar is working on her debut non-fiction book about language, belonging, and identity.

Nasia Sarwar-Skuse Author

Nasia Sarwar-Skuseis a writer and PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Swansea University. She has been working as a creative writing facilitator for three years and is passionate about the presence of authenticity in literature by ethnic voices and its intersections with diaspora, gender, and memory. Nasia was awarded the Writers' Bursary by Literature Wales in 2019. Her work has appeared in a number of publications.

Alycia Pirmohamed Author

Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet based in Scotland. She is the author of Another Way to Split Water, as well as the pamphlets Hinge and Faces that Fled the Wind, and the collaborative essay Second Memory, which was co-authored with Pratyusha.

She 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 MSt. Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge.

Alycia has held post-doctoral positions at University Edinburgh and at the University of Liverpool, and she received an MFA from the University of Oregon and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. She is the recipient of several awards, including the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize and the 2020 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award.

Katie Goh Chair

Katie Goh is a writer and editor, whose award-shortlisted criticism, essays and reporting on the arts have been published in The Guardian, Vice, Prospect, i-D, Dazed, the Independent and others. Katie is the nonfiction editor for Extra Teeth and has previously been an editor for gal-dem and The Skinny. Katie's essay-length book The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters was published by 404 Ink in 2021, and her debut book of nonfiction Foreign Fruit will be published by Canongate in 2025.