Mindy Gill is a recipient of the Queensland Premier’s Young Writers and Publishers Award and has received fellowships from the CMI Arts Initiative in Chennai and the Australian Poetry/NAHR Poetry Fellowship in the Val Taleggio, amongst others. Her poetry has most recently appeared in Australian Book Review, Griffith Review, and The Penguin Book of Indian Poets. She is Australian Book Review’s fifth Rising Star, and has also written essays and criticism for the Sydney Review of Books and Meanjin. In 2025, she was shortlisted for the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer and won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for her manuscript of poems, forthcoming with UQP in 2027.