Lamorna Ash
British writer
Lamorna Juliet Ash (born 27 November 1994) is a British writer. Her first book, Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2021. Her second book, Don't Forget We're Here Forever: A New Generation's Search for Religion was released in May 2025.
Biography
Ash is from West London; her mother is Cornish. Ash attended St Paul's Girls' School before studying English literature at Oxford University, graduating in 2016. She earned an MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology from University College London. She worked as an intern at The Times Literary Supplement.
Ash chose to study the fishing community in Newlyn, a fishing town in Cornwall, for her master's thesis. She stayed with a local couple, a fishmonger and a ship's chandler. She spent a week on the trawler Filadelfia, working with a crew of local fishermen.
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