Nasim Rebecca Asl

Nasim Rebecca Asl is a Glasgow-based poet and journalist. Originally from Washington, Tyne and Wear, her work has been published widely in magazines and anthologies including in New Writing Scotland, Poetry Wales, Modern Poetry in Translation. She received a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for Poetry in 2021 and was shortlisted for the 2022 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Nasim has worked on projects with the likes of The Poetry Translation Centre, The Poetry Business, the Rugby League World Cup, the Writing Squad and the Scottish BPOC Writers Network. She teaches workshops, chairs events at book festivals, and is the Belladrum Poetry Slam Champion 2023. Her debut pamphlet Nemidoonam was released by Verve Poetry Press in February 2023.