Gurmeet Kaur is a poet, critic, and essayist from London, based on Wurundjeri Country. Her writing appears in publications across Australia and the UK, including Debris, Rabbit, Island, Cordite, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Ambit, and others.

She was one of the 2023 New Critics at Kill Your Darlings, and her writing was Highly Commended in the 2024 Next Chapter Fellowship, leading to a year-long mentorship with the University of Melbourne’s Creative Writing Department, where she developed her debut poetry collection.

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 Her unpublished chapbook was a finalist in the 2022 Palette Poetry Chapbook Prize and shortlisted by Emma Press .

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

She studied International Relations and History at the London School of Economics and is a qualified teacher. Gurmeet works across writing, art, editing, program curating, and education.