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Miriam Nash is a Scottish poet, performer and arts facilitator. She has published a pamphlet, Small Change (2015) and a full-length poetry collection, All the Prayers in the House, (2017). She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2015, was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan poetry award in 2016, and won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2018.
Miriam Nash | |
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| Born | 1985 |
| Occupation | Poet, performer, arts facilitator |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Education | Sarah Lawrence College |
| Notable works | All the Prayers in the House |
| Notable awards | Eric Gregory Award (2015) Somerset Maugham Award (2018) |
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Miriam Nash was born in Inverness, Scotland in 1985. She grew up in Scotland, and England and Wales.[1] She won a Fulbright Scholarship to study poetry at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she obtained an MFA in 2014.[2]
Nash's pamphlet Small Change was published by Flipped eye publishing in 2013. In 2016, she was Writer-in-residence at Greenway, the holiday home of Agatha Christie.[3] In 2017, her first full-length collection, All the Prayers in the House,, was published by Bloodaxe.[4] As a poet and arts facilitator, Nash has worked with schools, museums, mental health organisations and prisons in the UK, USA and Singapore.[1]
Nash currently lives and works in London where she teaches creative writing at the Ministry of Stories.[1][4]
Nash received an Eric Gregory Award in 2015 and was nominated for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award in 2016, for her pamphlet Small Change. Nash was winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 2018 for her poetry collection, All the Prayers in the House.[5][6]
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