Marjorie Lotfi

Marjorie Lotfi was one of the three winners of the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize in 2021, and her first book-length collection, The Wrong Person to Ask (Bloodaxe Books, 2023) is shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

Her poetry has been published widely, most recently on London’s Poems on the Underground. She is one of the UNESCO Cities of Literature’s ILX 10 ‘Rising Stars of UK Writing’, a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and a member of Writer’s Mosaic.

Marjorie also co-founded the Belonging Project, considering the experiences of refugees with over 1,500 participants across Scotland, and is a Co-Founder and Director of the charity Open Book.