Gurmeet Kaur is a writer working across poetry, criticism and curatorial practice. Her work engages visual culture, archives, empire and place.
Her writing has appeared in Best of Australian Poems, Debris, Cordite, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Liminal and elsewhere. She was selected as a New Critic with Kill Your Darlings, has been recognised in the Ambit Annual Competition and the Next Chapter Fellowship, and has been a recipient of a Varuna Fellowship.
She co-curated Threads, an immersive installation presented at Melbourne Museum and Immigration Museum, and in 2025 edited Culture Makers (Museums Victoria), a publication exploring critical approaches to storytelling within cultural institutions. As a writer-in-residence at Footscray Community Arts, she developed text-based poetic installations, including Flood Myth, exhibited as part of Same River Twice at Emerging Writers’ Festival.
She holds a BSc in International Relations and History from the London School of Economics and lives between London and Naarm.
Photograph by Tamarah Scott