Gurmeet Kaur is a poet, critic, and essayist whose work appears in publications across Australia and the UK, including Debris, Rabbit, Island, Cordite, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Peril, Ambit, and others.

Her poem Flower Prayers was Highly Commended by Rebecca Tamas in the 2022 Ambit Annual Competition, and Testimony won the 2021 Ultimo Prize, published in the anthology Everything, All at Once (Ultimo Press). Her unpublished chapbook was a finalist for the 2022 Palette Poetry Chapbook Prize and shortlisted by Emma Press.

She has been supported by residencies and development programs with Varuna, The Writers’ House; Footscray Arts Centre, Garambi Baan/InPlace, Malthouse Theatre, Trocadero Projects, and the City of Maribyrnong. Gurmeet has performed her work at the 2023 Emerging Writers Festival, Writers Victoria’s 2024 State of the (Writing) Nation, the 2025 Footscray West Writers Festival, and elsewhere. 

In 2023, she was selected as a New Critic with Kill Your Darlings, and her work was Highly Commended in the 2024 Next Chapter Fellowship, leading to a year-long mentorship with the University of Melbourne’s Creative Writing Department. She also edited Culture Makers (Museums Victoria, 2025), a publication emerging from a multi-year collaboration between artists and Museums Victoria that reimagined how stories are told within museum galleries.

She received a BSc in International Relations and History from the London School of Economics and is  completing an MA in Poetry at the University of East Anglia. Supported by the Neilma Sidney Literary Fund and Creative Australia, Gurmeet is currently developing her debut poetry collection. A former teacher and museum educator, her practice spans writing, editing, art, curating, and education.