Mona Dash is an author based in London. Her work includes her memoir A Roll of the Dice (2019), a short story collection Let Us Look Elsewhere (2021), a novel Untamed Heart (2016) and two collections of poetry, A Certain Way (2017) and Dawn-drops (2001). Her work has been presented on BBC Radio 4, included in Best British Short Stories 2022 and published in more than 35 anthologies. She works as a business leader in AI for a global tech company.
Mona Dash
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Shaped and moulded by a sense of place
'With the sandstone sculpture of an Odissi dancer, silver filigree metalwork and fragrant jasmine flowers in the garden, home for me lives on in London'
10th December 2025
In conversation
Mona Dash: 'As a diasporic writer, I'm expected to write in a certain way but I am not going to conform.'
In conversation with Bashabi Fraser
30th July 2025
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Scattering stars like dust
An extract from Mona’s unpublished novel Scattering Stars Like Dust
16th July 2025
Mona Dash
Mona Dash is a poet, short story writer and novelist.