Rupi Kaur (born in Punjab, India) immigrated to Canada as a child and grew up in Brampton, Ontario. She studied rhetoric and professional writing at the University of Waterloo. Her debut collection milk and honey (Andrews McMeel, 2014), self-published before being picked up by Andrews McMeel, sold over three million copies and spent more than a year on The New York Times bestseller list, making Kaur one of the best-selling poets of the twenty-first century. Her subsequent collections the sun and her flowers (2017) and home body (2020) have also been international bestsellers. Her work, distributed widely through Instagram, addresses trauma, healing, femininity, and the immigrant experience in spare, accessible verse.