Lamorna Ash is a writer and freelance journalist for The Guardian.Ash began her writing career as an intern at the Times Literary Supplement. Her first book, "Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town," was published in 2020 and won the 2021 Somerset Maugham Award.Ash received her B.A. in English from Oxford University, and her M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from University College London.