Marjorie Lotfi

In this episode of What We Leave We Carry, the series that tells true-life stories of migration to the UK, the poet, essayist and memoirist Marjorie Lotfi recalls fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 during the revolution. She and her family made their way to the US. And now she has settled in Scotland where she is celebrated for her poetry. Marjorie’s debut The Wrong Person to Ask has just been shortlisted for the Forward Prize‘s Best First Collection.

Photo of Marjorie Lotfi in the Rose Garden, Tehran, courtesy of the author