Marjorie Lotfi

Marjorie Lotfi is the author of The Wrong Person to Ask (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), which won the 2024 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and a James Berry Award. It was also shortlisted for the Saltire Prize for Best Book of Poetry and was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her second collection No Known God is forthcoming from Bloodaxe Books in 2027, and her memoir about her childhood in revolutionary Iran and her family’s arrival in Ohio in 1979 is in progress. Marjorie is a member of the Royal Literary Fund’s WritersMosaic and offers online mentoring and workshops and residential writing retreats at Galloway House Estate, her home on the southwest coast of Scotland.