Mindy Gill was born in Queensland in 1995. She has received fellowships from the RMIT Visiting Poets Fellowship in Melbourne, the CMI Arts Initiative in Chennai, and the Australian Poetry/NAHR Poetry Fellowship in the Val Taleggio, amongst others. She won the 2025 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and her debut poetry collection will be published by UQP in 2027.

Mindy is also the recipient of the Queensland Premier’s Young Writers and Publishers Award and the Tom Collins Poetry Prize. In 2025, she was shortlisted for the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer. Her poems have been published in Australian and international literary journals and anthologies, including The Penguin Book of Indian Poets. Her recent or forthcoming publications include The Saturday Paper, Australian Book Review, Griffith Review, and Weekend Australian. From 2017-2020, she was Peril magazine’s Editor-in-Chief.

As a literary critic, she is currently Australian Book Review’s fifth Rising Star. She has also written essays and criticism for Griffith Review, Sydney Review Books, Kill Your Darlings and Meanjin. She holds a Doctorate in Creative Writing from the Queensland University of Technology.