She started dabbling in the arts as a girl when her mother guided her drawing even as her childhood poetry remained something of a hobby. However, she did not always want to be a poet growing up as she loved the idea of becoming a visual artist more. She went to the Turner Fenton Secondary School for her high school studies, before she proceeded to the University of Waterloo, where she studied professional writing and rhetoric. She also asserts that her mother taught her how to paint and draw, a skill that she has put to use illustrating her poems. As such, Kaur draws a lot of her inspiration from her Indian heritage and her Sikh religion. Rupi Kaur was born in Punjab India to a Sikh family that immigrated to Canada when the poet was four years old. Kaur has also been subject to widespread media fame and scholarly attention for the illustrations in her poetry and the use of menstrual blood to create variety in her visual poetry.
The work sold more than 2.5 million copies and spent more than 77 weeks on the New York Times bestselling list. She has become a very popular poet, particularly among the masses ever since she published her first work in 2014 “Milk and Honey.” The novel went on to outsell “The Odyssey” and become the bestselling poetry work of all time. Her poems have pioneered a new genre of easily accessible and short genre of poetry distributed and popularized through social media and known as Instapoetry. Rupi Kaur is an Indian born Canadian performer and poet.
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