About the Author rupi kaur is a poet artist and performer as a 21-year-old university student rupi wrote illustrated and self-published her first poetry collection milk and honey next came its artistic sibling the sun and her flowers these collections have sold over 8 million copies and have been translated into over 40 languages home body is her third collection of poetry rupi’s work touches on love loss trauma healing femininity and migration she feels most at home when creating art or performing her poetry onstage