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| birth_place = [[Belfast]], Northern Ireland
| alma_mater = [[University for the Creative Arts]]
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'''Nikita Gill''' is an Irish-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator based in south England.<ref name="Smallman 2022 Nikita Gill">{{cite web | last=Smallman | first=Etan | title=Poet Nikita Gill: 'I worry about people getting tattoos of my work. What if I made a typo?' | website=the Guardian | date=2022-08-10 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/10/poet-nikita-gill-i-worry-about-people-getting-tattoos-of-my-work-what-if-i-made-a-typo | access-date=2024-01-25}}</ref> She has written and curated eight volumes of [[poetry]] and is one of the most followed poets on [[Instagram]].<ref name="fashionmagazine.com">{{Cite web|url=https://fashionmagazine.com/culture/nikita-gill-interview/|title=Don't Repost Nikita Gill's Poetry Without Crediting Her—Even if You're a Kardashian|first=Meghan|last=McKenna|date=2018-06-26|website=FASHION Magazine|access-date=2020-01-24|archive-date=24 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124223130/https://fashionmagazine.com/culture/nikita-gill-interview/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="ABPL">{{Cite web|url=https://www.asian-voice.com/Culture/Art/Instapoets-taking-the-world-by-storm|title=Instapoets taking the world by storm...|last=ABPL|website=www.asian-voice.com|language=en-GB|date=18 February 2019|access-date=2020-01-24|archive-date=24 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124223143/https://www.asian-voice.com/Culture/Art/Instapoets-taking-the-world-by-storm|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Life ==
Gill was born in [[Belfast]] to [[Indian people|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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/author-interviews/author-interviews/nikita-gill-there-was-so-much-anger-inside-me-640601|title=Nikita Gill {{!}} 'There was so much anger inside me'|website=The Bookseller|first=Caroline|last=Sanderson|date=15 September 2017|access-date=19 November 2022|archive-date=19 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221119220537/https://www.thebookseller.com/author-interviews/author-interviews/nikita-gill-there-was-so-much-anger-inside-me-640601|url-status=live}}</ref> Gill studied design at university in New Delhi, and she completed a master's degree at the [[University for the Creative Arts]].<ref name="ABPL"/> She worked as a cleaner and a care-giver after her education.<ref name="TEDxLondonWomen">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/33565|title=TEDxLondonWomen|publisher=TED|access-date=2020-01-24|archive-date=29 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929173808/https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/33565|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Work ==
Gill's work was first published when she was 12 years old.<ref name=":0" /> She 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 debut novel, ''[[Hekate: The Witch]]'' (2025), a novel-in-verse published by [[Little, Brown Books for Young Readers]], is a retelling of the [[Hecate|Greek myth of Hekate]] and the first installment in the Goddesses of the Underworld trilogy.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hekate: The Witch by Nikita Gill |url=https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/nikita-gill/hekate/9780316596763/ |website=Hachette Book Group |access-date=2026-04-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Hekate: The Witch |journal=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |date=2025 |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nikita-gill/hekate-standard-edition/ |access-date=2026-04-26}}</ref> Her work offers reflections on love, and feminist re-tellings of fairy tales and Greek myths.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scoopwhoop.com/Nikita-Gill-Poems/|title=27 Poems By Nikita Gill That Capture The Whirlwind Of Emotions That Love Is|last=Bhatia|first=Shrishti|date=2017-01-11|website=scoopwhoop.com|language=English|access-date=2020-01-24}}</ref><ref name=":0"/> She has been inspired by the works of [[Sylvia Plath]], [[Maya Angelou]] and [[Robert Frost]].

Gill wrote and performed her debut work for the stage, ''Maidens, Myths, and Monsters''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.omnibus-clapham.org/maidens-myths-monsters/|title=Maidens, Myths & Monsters|website=Omnibus Theatre|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-01-24|archive-date=24 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124223141/https://www.omnibus-clapham.org/maidens-myths-monsters/|url-status=live}}</ref> She is an ambassador for [[National Poetry Day]].<ref name=":0" /> She has appeared on the [[BBC]], contributing to [[Woman's Hour]] on Radio Four, Free Thinking on Radio Three, and [[BBC Asian Network]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06mv3xh|title=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?|website=BBC|date=3 October 2018 |language=en-GB|access-date=2020-01-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09kd52k|title=BBC Asian Network - Mim Shaikh, Nikita Gill|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-01-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000v4s|title=BBC Radio 3 - Free Thinking, The Dark and Political Messages of Kids Fiction|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-01-24|archive-date=24 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124225552/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000v4s|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dj0g|title=BBC Radio 3 - Free Thinking, Pioneering women: academics and classics|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-01-24|archive-date=25 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125091121/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dj0g|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Gill is openly bisexual.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Iftikhar |first=Asyia |date=2023-06-13 |title=Mary Lambert, Nikita Gill and more on the enduring legacy of queer female poets |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/13/legacy-of-queer-female-poets-mary-lambert-nikita-gill/ |access-date=2023-07-10 |website=PinkNews |language=en-US |archive-date=10 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230710164526/https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/13/legacy-of-queer-female-poets-mary-lambert-nikita-gill/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Instapoetry]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
*{{instagram|nikita_gill}}
*TedX Profile: http://tedxlondon.com/attend/TEDxLondonWomen2019/speakers/NikitaGill {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413230842/https://tedxlondon.com/attend/TEDxLondonWomen2019/speakers/NikitaGill |date=13 April 2021 }}

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GildaNolan0093 at 10:44, 26 April 2026