Miriam Nash is a Scottish poet, performer and arts facilitator. She has published a pamphlet, Small Change (2015) and a full-length poetry collection, All the Prayers in the House (2017). She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2015, was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award in 2016, and won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2018.
Miriam Nash was born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1985. She grew up in Scotland, and England and Wales.[1] She won a Fulbright Scholarship to study poetry at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she obtained an MFA in 2014.[2]
Nash's pamphletSmall Change was published by Flipped eye publishing in 2013. In 2016, she was Writer-in-residence at Greenway, the holiday home of Agatha Christie.[3] In 2017, her first full-length collection, All the Prayers in the House, was published by Bloodaxe Books.[4] With artwork by her mother, the artist Christina Edlund-Plater, Nash published another limited-edition pamphlet, The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr, with Hercules Editions in 2020.[5] Poets Kayo Chingonyi and Jacqueline Saphra called the collection "breathtaking" and "starkly relevant to our times." As a poet and arts facilitator, Nash has worked with schools, museums, mental health organisations and prisons in the UK, USA and Singapore.[1]
Nash received an Eric Gregory Award in 2015 and was nominated for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award in 2016, for her pamphlet Small Change. Nash was winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 2018 for her poetry collection, All the Prayers in the House.[6][7]
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