Gurmeet Kaur is a writer working across poetry, criticism and curatorial practice. Her work often engages with visual culture, archives, empire and place. 

Her writing is published in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Sydney Review of Books, Liminal, Best of Australian Poems, Cordite Poetry Review, Debris, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been recognised in the Ambit Annual Competition and the Next Chapter Fellowship, and she also received a Varuna Fellowship and Kill Your Darlings’ New Critic award.

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 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).