aischa daughtery is a scottish poet and fiction writer who lives and writes in glasgow. in 2021, she won the creative future writer’s award (gold poetry), which she accepted in london’s royal festival hall, and read alongside guest judges dorothy koomson and joelle taylor. aischa was recently awarded a grant from young scot’s 2021 nurturing talent fund, which she will use to create and publish this is how we love (2022), an anthology of over 120 love letters shared between lesbians across the globe. after graduating with a first-class (with distinction) MA in english literature and sociology in 2021, aischa is now enrolled on the university of glasgow’s creative writing MLitt. she is currently working on nirvana moon, a preteen novel that grapples with the highs and horrors of 21st-century girlhood. her poetic work has appeared in bad betty press, adjacent pineapple, from glasgow to saturn, not very quiet, the queer dot, sinister wisdom and more, and she has received press in publications including the herald.