Premee Mohamed

Premee Mohamed is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She also works as Social Media Manager and Associate Editor for Escape Pod.

Early life and education Premee Mohamed was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She earned a BSc in molecular genetics from University of Alberta in 2002.

Career Premee Mohamed initially wrote for herself. Beneath the Rising was her tenth or eleventh novel, and was written between 2000 and 2002, but she only submitted it for publication in 2016 after her short story "The Adventurer’s Wife" was accepted for an anthology around 2015. Since then, Mohamed's short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Her short story "Willing" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2017.

Her novel The Siege of Burning Grass was shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize and named one of "The Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024" by Esquire. Both The Siege of Burning Grass and The Butcher of the Forest won Aurora Awards in 2025.

The Annual Migration of Clouds series:

Novelettes "By Salt, by Sea, by Light of Stars" (2024)

Short stories

Collections

Awards + Year Work Award Category Result 2021 Beneath the Rising Aurora Award Novel British Fantasy Award Horror Novel Crawford Award — Locus Award First Novel And What Can We Offer You Tonight Nebula Award Novella 2022 World Fantasy Award Novella Aurora Award Novelette/Novella Aurora Award Novel Locus Award Horror Novel These Lifeless Things Aurora Award Novelette/Novella No One Will Come Back for Us BSFA Award Collection 2024 Aurora Award Related Work Ignyte Award Anthology/Collected Works Locus Award Collection Aurora Award Short Fiction Locus Award Short Story Ursula K. Le Guin Prize — Nebula Award Novella 2025 Aurora Award Novelette/Novella Hugo Award Novella Ignyte Award Novella Locus Award Novella World Fantasy Award Novella Aurora Award Novel Short Fiction Ursula K. Le Guin Prize —