Nikita Gill Explained

Birth Place:Belfast, Northern Ireland
Alma Mater:University for the Creative Arts
Years Active:2016–present

Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator based in south England.[1] She has written and curated eight volumes of poetry and is one of the most followed poets on Instagram.[2] [3]

Life

Gill was born in Belfast to Indian parents who had been living in Ireland. She has Irish citizenship and Overseas Citizenship of India. 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.[3] She worked as a cleaner and a care-giver after her education.[5]

Work

Gill's work was first published when she was 12 years old. Gill has published eight 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), and These Are the Words: fearless versefind your voice (2022). Her work offers reflections on love, and feminist re-tellings of fairy tales and Greek myths.[6] [4] She has been inspired by the works of Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou and Robert Frost.

She wrote and performed her debut work for the stage, Maidens, Myths, and Monsters.[7] She is an ambassador for National Poetry Day. Gill has appeared on the BBC, contributing to Woman's Hour on Radio Four, Free Thinking on Radio Three, and BBC Asian Network.[8] [9] [10] [11]

Personal life

Gill is openly bisexual.[12]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Smallman . Etan . Poet Nikita Gill: 'I worry about people getting tattoos of my work. What if I made a typo?' . the Guardian . 2022-08-10 . 2024-01-25.
  2. Web site: Don't Repost Nikita Gill's Poetry Without Crediting Her—Even if You're a Kardashian. Meghan. McKenna. 2018-06-26. FASHION Magazine. 2020-01-24. 24 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200124223130/https://fashionmagazine.com/culture/nikita-gill-interview/. live.
  3. Web site: Instapoets taking the world by storm.... ABPL. www.asian-voice.com. en-GB. 18 February 2019. 2020-01-24. 24 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200124223143/https://www.asian-voice.com/Culture/Art/Instapoets-taking-the-world-by-storm. live.
  4. Web site: Nikita Gill 'There was so much anger inside me'. The Bookseller. Caroline. Sanderson. 15 September 2017. 19 November 2022. 19 November 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221119220537/https://www.thebookseller.com/author-interviews/author-interviews/nikita-gill-there-was-so-much-anger-inside-me-640601. live.
  5. Web site: TEDxLondonWomen. TED. 2020-01-24. 29 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200929173808/https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/33565. live.
  6. Web site: 27 Poems By Nikita Gill That Capture The Whirlwind Of Emotions That Love Is. Bhatia. Shrishti. 2017-01-11. scoopwhoop.com. English. 2020-01-24.
  7. Web site: Maidens, Myths & Monsters. Omnibus Theatre. en-GB. 2020-01-24. 24 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200124223141/https://www.omnibus-clapham.org/maidens-myths-monsters/. live.
  8. Web site: 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. 3 October 2018 . en-GB. 2020-01-24.
  9. Web site: BBC Asian Network - Mim Shaikh, Nikita Gill. BBC. en-GB. 2020-01-24.
  10. Web site: BBC Radio 3 - Free Thinking, The Dark and Political Messages of Kids Fiction. BBC. en-GB. 2020-01-24. 24 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200124225552/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000v4s. live.
  11. Web site: BBC Radio 3 - Free Thinking, Pioneering women: academics and classics. BBC. en-GB. 2020-01-24. 25 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200125091121/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dj0g. live.
  12. Web site: Iftikhar . Asyia . 2023-06-13 . Mary Lambert, Nikita Gill and more on the enduring legacy of queer female poets . 2023-07-10 . PinkNews . en-US . 10 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230710164526/https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/13/legacy-of-queer-female-poets-mary-lambert-nikita-gill/ . live .

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