Miriam Nash is a Scottish poet, performer and arts facilitator. She has published a

pamphlet A pamphlet is an unbound book (that is, without a hard cover or binding). Pamphlets may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths, called a ''leaflet'' or it may consist of a ...

, ''Small Change'' (2015) and a full-length poetry collection, ''All the Prayers in the House'', (2017). She received an

Eric Gregory Award The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given annually by the Society of Authors for a collection by British poets under the age of 30. The award was founded in 1960 by Dr. Eric Gregory to support and encourage young poets. In 2021, the seven ...

in 2015, was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan poetry award in 2016, and won the

Somerset Maugham Award The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each year by the Society of Authors. Set up by William Somerset Maugham in 1947 the awards enable young writers to enrich their work by gaining experience in foreign countries. The awa ...

in 2018.

Biography

Miriam Nash was born in

Inverness, Scotland Inverness (; from the gd, Inbhir Nis , meaning "Mouth of the River Ness"; sco, Innerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands. Historic ...

in 1985. She grew up in Scotland, and England and Wales. She won a Fulbright Scholarship to study poetry at

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Supervision system, Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sara ...

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, where she obtained an MFA in 2014. Nash's

''Small Change'' was published by

Flipped eye publishing Founded in 2001 by Nii Ayikwei Parkes and J. A. Parkes, flipped eye publishing is a company that publishes original poetry and prose on a not-for-profit model. The not-for-profit approach has allowed flipped eye to focus on new writers with poten ...

in 2013. In 2016, she was Writer-in-residence at Greenway, the holiday home of Agatha Christie. In 2017, her first full-length collection, ''All the Prayers in the House'',, was published by Bloodaxe. As a poet and arts facilitator, Nash has worked with schools, museums, mental health organisations and prisons in the UK, USA and Singapore. Nash currently lives and works in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

where she teaches creative writing at the Ministry of Stories.

Awards

Nash received an

in 2015 and was nominated for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award in 2016, for her pamphlet ''Small Change''. Nash was winner of the

in 2018 for her poetry collection, ''All the Prayers in the House''.

Poetry collections

*''Small Change'' (2013) *''All the Prayers in the House'' (2017)

References

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