Rupi Kaur

Rupi Kaur is a Canadian poet, illustrator, photographer and author, born on 4 October 1992 in Punjab, India. Her family emigrated to Canada when she was three and settled in Brampton, Ontario. She studied rhetoric and professional writing at the University of Waterloo and began sharing her poems and line drawings on Instagram in 2013.

She self-published her debut collection, milk and honey, in 2014, and it was later picked up by Andrews McMeel Publishing. Her other collections are the sun and her flowers (2017), home body (2020) and Healing Through Words (2022). Her books have been translated into more than forty languages.