Rupi Kaur

Rupi Kaur is an Indian-Canadian poet, illustrator, and photographer, born in Punjab and brought to Canada as a young child. She began performing poetry in 2009 and found her readers on Instagram, where her plain-spoken verse and line drawings took off. She is best known for Milk and Honey, a 2014 collection that has sold over 11 million copies, followed by The Sun and Her Flowers and Home Body. She also wrote Healing Through Words, a self-help title.