Nikita Gill

Nikita Gill is a poet and writer. She has written and curated seven volumes of poetry. She uses social media to engage her audience and she has 642,000 followers on Instagram with just over 460 posts. She has been described as one of the most successful Instapoets,[1][2] and 'one of the most exciting young writers working today'.[3]

Nikita Gill

Life

Gill was born in Belfast to Indian parents who had been living in Ireland. She has dual Irish and Indian citizenship. Her father was in the merchant navy. The family moved to New Delhi when Gill was six, and she grew up and was educated there.[4] Gill studied Design at university in New Delhi, and she completed a master's degree at the University for the Creative Arts.[2] She worked as a cleaner and a carer after her education.[3]

Work

Gill's work was first published when she was twelve years old.[4] Her work was rejected 137 times for publication.[5] Gill has published seven volumes of poetry, including Your Soul Is A River (2016), Wild Embers: Poems of rebellion, fire and beauty (2017), Fierce Fairytales: & Other Stories to Stir Your Soul (2018), Great Goddesses: Life lessons from myths and monsters (2019), Your Heart Is The Sea (2019), The Girl and the Goddess (2020), Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light (2021). Her work offers reflections on love, and feminist re-tellings of fairytales and Greek myths.[6][4] She has been inspired by the works of Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou and Robert Frost.

She has written short stories, and she is currently working on a novel.[1][5] She wrote and performed her debut work for the stage, Maidens, Myths, and Monsters.[7] She is an ambassador for National Poetry Day.[4] Gill regularly appears on the BBC, contributing to Woman's Hour on Radio Four, Free Thinking on Radio Three, and BBC Asian Network.[8][9][10][11]

References
  1. "Don't Repost Nikita Gill's Poetry Without Crediting Her—Even if You're a Kardashian". FASHION Magazine. 26 June 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  2. ABPL. "Instapoets taking the world by storm..." www.asian-voice.com. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  3. "TEDxLondonWomen". TED. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  4. "Nikita Gill | 'There was so much anger inside me'". The Bookseller. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  5. "Poet of millennials: How Nikita Gill became the voice of the generation with her cathartic words". Hindustan Times. 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  6. Bhatia, Shrishti (11 January 2017). "27 Poems By Nikita Gill That Capture The Whirlwind Of Emotions That Love Is". scoopwhoop.com. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  7. "Maidens, Myths & Monsters". Omnibus Theatre. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  8. "BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Poets: Charly Cox and Nikita Gill, Premature babies and crocheted octopuses, Scarlett Curtis, Can poetry be a form of therapy?". BBC. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  9. "BBC Asian Network - Mim Shaikh, Nikita Gill". BBC. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  10. "BBC Radio 3 - Free Thinking, The Dark and Political Messages of Kids Fiction". BBC. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  11. "BBC Radio 3 - Free Thinking, Pioneering women: academics and classics". BBC. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
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