Sylvia Plath: Life Between the Lines - Mona Arshi Poet in the City · Interview with Mona Arshi at Poet in the City's Sylvia Plath - Life Between the Lines event Mona Arshi worked as a Human rights lawyer at Liberty before she started writing poetry. Her debut collection ‘Small Hands’ won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2015. Her poems and interviews have been published in The Times, The Guardian, Granta and The Times of India as well as on the London Underground. Mona’s second collection ‘Dear Big Gods’ was published in 2019 by Liverpool University Press. Her debut novel will be published in 2021. This interview was conducted on 24 September 2019 at Kings Place by Tom Deveson at Sylvia Plath: Life Between the Lines.