Press outlets I’ve been featured in include The Evening Standard, BBC, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, TLS, The National, and elsewhere.  

Some generous things people have said about me and my writing: 

“Mehri is a dazzling voice that refuses to speak from a podium.”

― The Guardian

“Mehri isn’t just another poet preaching to the choir. Her work is not just politically vital, but poetically alive.”

― The Times

“Rich, playful, often funny.”  

― Sunday Times

‘“Mehri is a truly transnational poet of the twenty-first century whose words pulsate out into the world-at-large’ 

— Bernardine Evaristo 

“A poet like Momtaza Mehri comes only once in a generation.”

— Caleb Femi

“Momtaza Mehri is in the advance party of a daring new turn in global anglophone poetry.”

 — Kayo Chingonyi

“Mehri demands of us a scrutiny so vital, so diligent, that to read her is to be called into love.”

— Aracelis Girmay