Kuldip Gill was born in Faridkot District, Punjab, India. She immigrated to Canada at age five and then attended school in the Fraser Valley. She worked in the forestry and mining industries for twenty years and then obtained her PhD in anthropology from UBC. She taught at UBC, SFU, and at the Open Learning Agency. She taught a creative writing class at the University College of the Fraser Valley. Her poetry has aired on radio and has appeared in periodicals such as Event, BC Studies, Contemporary Verse 2, and AMSSA–Cultures West. She served on the editorial board of Prism International. Gill’s first book of poetry, Dharma Rasa (Nightwood Editions), was a winner of a BC 2000 Book Award. Gill passed away in 2009.
