Mona Arshi is a poet and a lawyer who lives in West London. Her debut collection Small Hands won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2015. Her second collection Dear Big Gods was published in April 2019 by Liverpool University Press.
‘I longed for poems to meet me in my sorrow and help me know how to live in that new world, how to survive it.’
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