
Mehreen Arshi is a Pakistani-born, Australia-raised writer, researcher, and reader based in Canberra. After fifteen years in scientific research and writing, she turned to fiction to explore family, identity, belonging, cultural expectation, and the private desires that shape a life.

She is the author of *I carry your heart*, a family romance set between Pakistan, Australia, and London. Her second novel, currently in progress, follows the long shadow of the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan.


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Pakistani-born, Australia-raised writer based in Canberra.

Mehreen Arshi


Snippets from the night...

![Susan and I](https://ardent-nightingale-571.convex.cloud/api/storage/23ec78a0-c880-4337-858d-43caf4b4e21a)

I was invited to talk love, culture, family, reading classics and writitng - all the things that were poured into my debut, 'I Carry Your Heart'.

![Book signing](https://ardent-nightingale-571.convex.cloud/api/storage/c45df728-2501-4b96-b919-3d54a4e2c964)

Wonderful host Susan Helyar and fantastic crowd. A beautiful event of bringing writers, readers and culture together under one roof.

![Audience 1](https://ardent-nightingale-571.convex.cloud/api/storage/e1e3fe3e-37d5-4f5f-9aea-0717451b083d)
![Audience 2](https://ardent-nightingale-571.convex.cloud/api/storage/062849e1-5598-4e70-b886-fde69ef6cb4a)
![Audience 3](https://ardent-nightingale-571.convex.cloud/api/storage/21b6e95e-d406-476e-9aad-4230737f5f50)


Events.

My author talk at Ginsights