Moni Mohsin

Moni Mohsin is an author and journalist. She was born and raised in Pakistan but lives now between London and Lahore. She began her journalistic career at The Friday Times, Pakistan’s first weekly newspaper, where she started her long-running, satirical column ‘The Diary of a Social Butterfly’. Now working as a freelancer, she writes on culture, politics, lifestyle, class and society. Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Times of India, 1843, Vogue, The Nation and Prospect. Moni Mohsin has written five works of fiction — three novels, The End of Innocence, The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R and Tender Hooks aka Duty Free and two books of collected Butterfly columns, The Diary of a Social Butterfly and The Return of the Butterfly. She also hosts a comic podcast called Browned Off with editor and critic Faiza Khan in which they lift the lid on diversity — or the lack thereof! — in contemporary Western culture