Nikita Gill
Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator living in the south of England. She has published seven collections of poetry including Your Soul Is A River (Thought Catalog), Your Heart is the Sea (Thought Catalog), Wild Embers (Trapeze), Fierce Fairytales (Trapeze) and Great Goddesses (Ebury).
She is the editor of the poetry anthology SLAM! (Macmillan’s Children’s Books) and her book, a novel in verse called The Girl and Goddess was published by Ebury on National Poetry Day 2020. She has also published a novel in verse for Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary called The Angel of Redemption and her children’s audiobook Animal Tales From India won Highly Commended in the Week Junior Kids Awards.
Her next book, Hekate, the first novel in a loosely connected trilogy about the Greek goddesses of the Underworld, will be published in autumn 2025 by Simon & Schuster in the UK and Little, Brown in US. Her work has been nominated for the Carnegie medal, shortlisted for the CLIPPA and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize.
