Priya Bains (b. 1995) is a poet, poet laureate and critic. She made her debut in 2021 with the poetry collection Med restene av mine hender (Forlaget Oktober), for which she was nominated for the Tarjei Vesaas Debutant Prize. In 2022, she received the Festival Poets' Scholarship at the Bergen Literary Festival and the Olav H. Hauge Scholarship at the Ulvik Poetry Festival. She is a regular columnist in Morgenbladet, and she has long experience from Tidsskriftet Fett as a guest editor, writer and book manager. She has studied at the Writing Academy in Bergen and the Writers' School in Copenhagen, in addition to holding a bachelor's degree in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Oslo. 2023 saw the publication of her rewrite of Swedish author Aya Kanbar's Hypervirkelighet (Solum Bokvennen) and more recently the Swedish-Norwegian anthology Alltid samme snø, alltid samme grense, which she co-edited with Burcu Sahin.