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. She received her undergraduate degree in molecular genetics in 2002, and also holds a degree in environmental science.

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. 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. 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. Her novel The Siege of Burning Grass was shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. Both The Siege of Burning Grass and The Butcher of the Forest won Aurora Awards in 2025.

Works

Novels

• Beneath the Rising trilogy: Beneath the Rising (2020) A Broken Darkness (2021) The Void Ascendant (2022)
• The Siege of Burning Grass (2024)

Novellas

• These Lifeless Things (2021)
• And What Can We Offer You Tonight (2021)
• The Annual Migration of Clouds (2021)
• We Speak Through the Mountain (2024)
• The Butcher of the Forest (2024)

Novelettes

• (2024)

Short Stories

• Hunted to Extinction (2025), short story in The End of the World as We Know It, New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand

Collections

• No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories (2023)

Awards

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