Lamorna Ash is a writer, journalist, and editor at Weatherglass Books. Her first book, Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Nature Writing Prize in 2020, and won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2021. The book was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. As a journalist, she writes for The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Times, New Left Review’s Sidecar, Literary Review, and The Telegraph. She is also a New Statesman columnist.
At MacDowell, Ash completed final edits for her second book, Don't Forget We're Here Forever, an investigation into Christianity in Britain today. It is scheduled for release with Bloomsbury in May 2025. She also started work on her third non-fiction book, tentatively titled The Possibility Love is Not Enough. For this, she spent most of her time conducting research in the James Baldwin Library, as well as interviewing several Fellows about the relationship between their art and how they think about love.
Portrait by Maria Rodenas Sainz de Baranda
