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Nasim Rebecca Asl

Nasim Rebecca Asl is a Glasgow-based Geordie-Persian poet and journalist. Her work has appeared in publications such as Gutter Magazine, Modern Poetry in Translation and Middleground Magazine. She has performed her work around Scotland, including at Inky Fingers, Sonnet Youth and Aberdeen’s Look Again Festival. In 2020 Nasim was featured in the inaugural Fringe of Colour Films and the Scottish BAME Network’s Writers of Colour Audio Anthology. In 2021 she was awarded a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for Poetry and is the September 2021 Poetry Business Digital Poet-in-Residence.

Nasim Rebecca Asl was part of the PTC's first UNDERTOW programme in 2022.