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Occupation | Scientist ![]() |
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Website | https://www.premeemohamed.com/ ![]() |
Premee Mohamed is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta.[1] She also works as Social Media Manager and Associate Editor for Escape Pod.[2]
Mohamed received her undergraduate degree in molecular genetics in 2002,[1] and also holds a degree in environmental science.[3]
Works
[edit]Mohamed initially wrote for herself. Beneath the Rising was her tenth or eleventh novel, and was written between 2000 and 2002, but she only submitted it for publication in 2016, after writing a short story that was accepted for an anthology in 2015.[4] Since then, Mohamed's short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Her short story Willing was nominated in 2017 for the Pushcart Prize.[2] The Annual Migration of Clouds won the 2022 Aurora Award for Best Novelette/Novella. It was also a finalist for the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction and the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize.[5] Her novel The Siege of Burning Grass was shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize.[6]
Novels
[edit]- Beneath the Rising trilogy:[7]
- Beneath the Rising (2020) – finalist for the Crawford Award, the Aurora Awards, the British Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award[2]
- A Broken Darkness (2021)
- The Void Ascendant (2022)[3]
- The Siege of Burning Grass (2024)[8]
Novellas
[edit]- ‘These Lifeless Things’ (2021), winner of the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards.[9]
- ‘And What Can We Offer You Tonight’ (2021), winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novella,[10] and the World Fantasy Award[11]
- ‘The Annual Migration of Clouds’ (2021)
Collections
[edit]- No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories (2023)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Wolf, Rob (11 September 2020). "Premee Mohamed Is Not a 'New' Writer". LitHub. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- ^ a b c Woodbury, Mary. "Spotlight – Premee Mohamed". Dragonfly.eco. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- ^ a b "Premee Mohamed". Penguin Books. Penguin. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- ^ Johnson, Andrea (9 March 2020). "Interview: Premee Mohamed, author of Beneath the Rising". nerds of a feather, flock together. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- ^ "Winners of the 2021 Alberta Literary Awards & City of Edmonton Book Prize". Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ "Edmonton writer Premee Mohamed among shortlisted authors for 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction". CBC Books. July 18, 2024. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
- ^ Haines, Rayanne. "Rayanne Haines Interviews Premee Mohamed". Read Alberta. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- ^ "The Siege of Burning Grass | Book by Premee Mohamed | Official Publisher Page". Simon & Schuster. Archived from the original on 2024-06-28. Retrieved 2024-07-09.
- ^ "Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards 2022". File 770. 17 September 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- ^ "SFWA Announces the Winners of the 57th Annual Nebula Awards®" (Press release). Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. May 21, 2022. Retrieved May 22, 2022.
- ^ "2022 World Fantasy Awards Winners". Locus Magazine. 6 November 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2022.