Rupi Kaur is a Canadian poet, author, illustrator, and performer. With her mother's encouragement, she began drawing at the age of five. She views her life as an artistic journey and has a degree in rhetoric studies. She is a poet and has performed her work internationally. Her debut poetry collection was published in 2014, Milk and Honey. It became a New York Times bestseller. The Sun and Her Flowers is her second poetry collection and was published in 2017.