nimaya lemal

Nimaya Lemal (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews’ School of English in environmental writing. Her thesis examines youth-led climate litigation materials, asking how young people articulate climate harm and collective futurity. She holds an MLitt in Environment, Culture, & Communication from the University of Glasgow, where she wrote her dissertation on ‘play’ as an ethic for environmental communicators. As a child actor, she trained in theatre at the Denver School of the Arts, dabbled in radio and TV advertisements, and competed at the international level as a monologist with the Educational Theatre Association. She has since worked as a voice actor for the New England Review, performed in, stage-managed, and directed plays in English and German, and co-founded a college improv troupe that had its heyday performing in rural Vermont with the Upright Citizens Brigade. She now works as a part-time science storyteller/journalist for the community interest company Bioregioning Tayside, is a co-founder and editor of the literary ecology journal Ambient Receiver, and has recently been the recipient of writing awards including the Kirkpatrick Dobie poetry prize and an Arts and Humanities Research Council award for a doctoral post in creative writing. Her writing has been published (or is coming out shortly) in the LA Review of Books, Green Letters, English, The Modernist Review, and the Oxford Review of Books. She is a member of the Critical Reimagining of Human Rights research centre.

PCS Credits: Bippity 2026, Much Ado at the Multiverse with Bear Pursuit Theatre Company, Artist Labs 8 & 9.