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Rupi Kaur is a poet, author, illustrator, activist, and performer. Her works have taken the literary world by storm with international acclaim. Rupi's collections of poetry include milk and honey, the sun and her flowers, and home body, which have sold over 8 million copies worldwide. Rupi feels most at home on stage having sold out 4 international tours. Her latest work includes her introduction to film by performing and executive producing, Rupi Kaur Live (2021) - a spoken-word live performance, the first poetry special of its kind.
Rupi wrote, illustrated, and self-published her first collection, milk and honey at age 21. In the years since, milk and honey has become an international phenomenon. It's sold over 5 million copies alone, been translated into more than 40 languages, and has spent over three years on the New York Times Best Sellers List. Her second collection, the sun and her flowers, debuted even stronger than the first, and immediately topped bestseller lists around the globe. Rupi's most recent poetry collection, home body, soared to #1 on best sellers lists around the world. In 2019, Rupi wrote the foreword for Kahlil Gibran's, The Prophet, and was named "Writer of the Decade" by The New Republic.
Rupi's work explores a variety of themes ranging from love, loss, trauma, healing, femininity, migration, and revolution. She's a storyteller and chronicler-a repository of community and history. She's a Forbes 30 under 30, an editor of the 2016 Mays Literary Anthology of New Writing from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and one of BBC's 100 women of 2017.
