Marjorie Lotfi

Marjorie Lotfi is the author of The Wrong Person to Ask (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), which is currently shortlisted for the 2024 Felix Dennis Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and was also a winner of the inaugural James Berry Prize and a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. It is shortlisted for Poetry Book of the Year in the Saltire Book Awards 2024. She is also 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’s prose and poetry has been published widely, most recently on London’s Poems on the Underground. She is currently working on a memoir about her childhood in revolutionary Iran and her family’s arrival in Ohio. Marjorie is also a Co-Founder and Director of Open Book, the Scottish charity that runs over 1000 shared reading and creative writing groups across Scotland in community settings.