Alicia Mietus is a second-year Creative Writing MA student at Birkbeck University. She recently won the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2019 for the fiction story 'Third Person Female”and has read her work at MIRLive, the Mechanics Institute Review spoken word event. Current interests include the role of women, the immigrant experience, cultural and generational clashes, feminism and identity. She is working towards a short story collection and also has interests in screen and play writing.