Author At A Glance: Rupi Kaur
- Rupi Kaur is a writer and artist based in Toronto, Canada.
- She started drawing at the age of five
- Her primary genre is poetry
- She released her first book of prose and poems in November 2014 – it has since been translated into over thirty languages
- She engages with themes of femininity, love, loss, trauma, and healing.
- When she is not writing or creating art, she is travelling internationally to perform her spoken word poetry, as well as hosting writing workshops.
Noted Works
Milk and honey / Rupi Kaur milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. It is about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose, deals with a different pain, heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.
The sun and her flowers / Rupi Kaur From Rupi Kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself. Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.
