Nikita Gill
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Nikita Gill
A poet and illustrator who revisits myth and folklore through contemporary questions of voice and identity.
Contemporary · Irish Indian poet, novelist, playwright, and illustrator
Their literary world
Nikita Gill brings mythology, contemporary relationships, and personal transformation together in accessible poetry. She revisits Greek and Indian mythic traditions, often attending to women whose stories have been simplified or told from outside their own perspective.
Her poems address heartbreak, self-worth, emotional boundaries, and the recovery of agency. Direct language and strong imagery make the work approachable while keeping its emotional concerns serious. Myth becomes a way to revisit inherited stories and ask what they might let us see differently now.
Featured reading · Flute & Forge reading companion
Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters
A companion to Gill’s poetry and prose collection, which retells goddess stories through questions of power, survival and self-definition.
Gill’s collection revisits goddess stories through voices often pushed to the edge of familiar myth. Retelling becomes a way to ask who gets power, whose pain is remembered, and how a figure might define herself anew. This is a companion to the book as a whole, not a substitute for its poems and prose.
This is Flute & Forge commentary on a collection, not a Gill poem or excerpt.
Explore the book at Penguin Random HouseA passage
“You do not owe anyone your forgiveness.”Reminder for Healing · from These Are the Words (2022)
A way into the passage
Gill challenges the assumption that forgiveness must be offered immediately or unconditionally. The poem centres personal agency and leaves room for healing without compulsory reconciliation.
Essential works
Poetry collection · 2017
Wild Embers
Poems on love, heartbreak, strength, and recovery after difficult experience.
Poetry collection · 2019
Great Goddesses
A poetic reimagining of women in Greek mythology, with attention to their complexity and agency.
Mythological novel · 2025
Hekate
A retelling centred on the Greek goddess Hekate and her transformation into a figure of power.
A question worth exploring
Can revisiting ancient myths help us question the stories we continue to tell about ourselves?
A question to carry with you
Who gets to retell a story we inherited?
An editorial introduction by Flute & Forge Studio.