Gurmeet Kaur is a writer working across poetry, criticism, and curatorial practice. Her writing appears in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Sydney Review of Books, Liminal, Best of Australian Poems, Cordite Poetry Review, Debris, and elsewhere.

She has been recognised in the Ambit Annual Competition and the Next Chapter Fellowship, and was a 2023 New Critics at Kill Your Darlings. She has been a recipient of a Varuna Residential Fellowship and City of Maribyrnong’s residency program. She is a 2026 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow.

Her curatorial work includes Threads, an immersive installation presented at Melbourne Museum and Immigration useum, and Culture Makers (Museums Victoria, 2025), a publication she edited. As writer-in-residence at Footscray Arts Centre, she developed a poetic installation Flood Myth, exhibited as part of Same River Twice at the Emerging Writers’ Festival.

Her work has been supported by Creative Australia, Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund, Grand Plan Funding and City of Maribyrnong. She studied international relations and history at the London School of Economics and is completing studies in poetry at the University of East Anglia. She lives between London and Naarm (Melbourne).