Premee Mohamed is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. Her fiction has won the Nebula Award, Locus Award, World Fantasy Award, and multiple Aurora Awards. 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. She later went back and earned a second BSc degree in environmental science.
Career Premee Mohamed initially wrote only for herself. Her first published novel, Beneath the Rising (2020), was her tenth or eleventh novel manuscript, written between 2000 and 2002, but the first submitted for publication. She only submitted the novel in 2016 after her short story "The Adventurer’s Wife" was accepted for an anthology circa 2015. Since then, Mohamed's short stories have appeared in multiple magazines and anthologies. Beneath the Rising was a finalist for the Aurora Award, British Fantasy Award, Locus Award, and Crawford Award. It is the first in a trilogy.
Her short story "Willing" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2017.
Mohamed's 2021 novella, 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. The book is the first in a trilogy about a young woman named Reid living in "a post-climate disaster Alberta." Retrieved 09-27-2026. The third book in the series, The First Thousand Trees, was a "2025 CIBA Booksellers’ List Selection." Retrieved 09-27-2026.
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. Retrieved 2026-06-17. Both The Siege of Burning Grass and The Butcher of the Forest won Aurora Awards in 2025.
Mohamed's 2025 collection, One Message Remains, four stories set across the same wider world, was published by Psychopomp. Tobias Carroll at Reactor characterized the collection as "very different from Mohamed’s bibliography thus far, but it shares with them a set of memorable characters and a reckoning with some of the grandest ethical questions out there. It’s another impressive addition to an increasingly essential bibliography." Retrieved 09-27-2026. The book was a finalist for both the Aurora Award and Locus Award.
Her latest novel, Wickhills, about a dangerous magical city and a secret agent, was published by Tor Books on September 9, 2026 and received a starred review from Library Journal: "This gas-lamp urban fantasy combines an exciting adventure, a walk through dangerous, secret places, and one man’s crisis. The pace is relentless, the characters are unreliable at every turn, and the stakes are high with every step." Retrieved 09-27-2026. Retrieved 09-27-2026.
Bibliography Novels Beneath the Rising trilogy:
Novellas
The Annual Migration of Clouds series:
Novelettes "By Salt, by Sea, by Light of Stars" (2024)
Short stories Retrieved April 23, 2026. Retrieved April 23, 2026.
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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 British Fantasy Award Horror Novel Locus Award Horror Novel These Lifeless Things Aurora Award Novelette/Novella British Fantasy Award Novella 2023 Aurora Award Novel No One Will Come Back for Us BSFA Award Collection 2024 Aurora Award Related Work British Fantasy Award Collection Ignyte Award Anthology/Collected Works Locus Award Collection World Fantasy 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 Locus Award Fantasy Novel Hugo Award Novelette Locus Award Novelette Locus Award Short Story 2026 Aurora Award Novella/Novellette Short Fiction One Message Remains Related Work Locus Award Collection Ursula K. Le Guin Prize — Retrieved 2026-06-30.
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