Mona Arshi

Mona Arshi was born in West London, where she still lives. She worked as a human rights lawyer with Liberty for a decade before receiving a master’s in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. Her first poetry collection, Small Hands, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; her second collection, Dear Big Gods, was published in 2019. Her debut novel Somebody Loves You was published by And Other Stories in 2021. Her poems have been published in The Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Times of India and most recently the London Underground, and she regularly appears on BBC Radio 4. She is Honorary Professor in both Law and English at the University of Liverpool.