[9] She became a member of The Complete Works mentoring programme and went on to win the Out-Spoken Page Poetry Prize (2017) and to publish a pamphlet, Sugah.

In 2018, Mehri won third prize in the National Poetry Competition and was named the Young People's Laureate of London.

[1] In 2019, Mehri won the Manchester Poetry Prize for unpublished writing,[10] and published a pamphet with Goldsmiths Press.

[11] In 2023, Mehri won an Eric Gregory Award and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection[12] with Bad Diaspora Poems.

[14] Mehri then took up the position of Jessica Bardsley Poet in Residence at Homerton College Cambridge.