Premee Mohamed
Indo-Caribbean scientist and author
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Premee Mohamed is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta.[1] She also works as Social Media Manager and Associate Editor for Escape Pod.[2]
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| Born | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Alma mater | University of Alberta |
| Occupations | Writer, scientist |
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| Language | English |
| Years active | 2021–present |
| Genres | Fantasy, horror |
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Early life and education
Premee Mohamed was born in Edmonton.[3] She received her undergraduate degree in molecular genetics in 2002,[1] and also holds a degree in environmental science.[4]
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 writing a short story that was accepted for an anthology in 2015.[5] Since then, Premee Mohamed's short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Her short story Willing was nominated in 2017 for the Pushcart Prize.[2]
The Annual Migration of Clouds won the 2022 Aurora Award for Best Novelette/Novella. It was also a finalist for the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction and the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize.[6]
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.[7][8] Both The Siege of Burning Grass and The Butcher of the Forest won Aurora Awards in 2025.[9]
Works
Novels
- Beneath the Rising trilogy:
- Beneath the Rising. Solaris Books. 2020. ISBN 9781781087862.
- A Broken Darkness. Solaris Books. 2021. ISBN 9781781088753.
- The Void Ascendant. Solaris Books. 2022. ISBN 9781786185204.
- The Siege of Burning Grass. Solaris Books. 2024. ISBN 9781837861835.
Novellas
- These Lifeless Things. Solaris Books/Penguin Audio. 2021. ASIN B08VWPXMW8.[a]
- And What Can We Offer You Tonight. Neon Hemlock Press. 2021. ISBN 9781952086250.
- The Annual Migration of Clouds series:
- The Annual Migration of Clouds. ECW Press. 2021. ISBN 9781770415935.
- We Speak Through the Mountain. ECW Press. 2024. ISBN 9781770417335.
- The First Thousand Trees. ECW Press. 2025. ISBN 9781770417342.
- The Butcher of the Forest. Titan Books. 2024. ISBN 9781803368726.
Novelettes
Short stories
- Christopher Golden; Brian Keene, eds. (2025). "Hunted to Extinction". The End of the World as We Know It, New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand. Gallery Books. ISBN 9781668057551.[11][12]
Collections
- No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories. Undertow Publications. 2023. ISBN 9781988964423.
- One Message Remains. Psychopomp. 2025. ISBN 9798891160101.