Kelly Kaur

Kelly Kaur is a writer, author, speaker and educator who lives in Calgary. She was awarded the 2025 South Asian Inspiration Award for Achievement in Arts and Culture (SAIA). She was a recipient of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award in 2024. Her children’s book, Howdy, I’m Singh Hari, came out in April 2025. She has a novel, Letters to Singapore. Her poems, short stories and nonfiction have been published on the moon, on beer cans, danced on stage, travelled to galleries and museums around seven cities in North Dakota, and published in Canadian and international journals and anthologies, to name a few. She is a reader and judge for the International Human Rights Art Movement, New York. She has presented two TEDx talks for Western University and McMaster University in 2025.