Simar Preet Kaur

Born 1983 in New Delhi/India.

Simar Preet Kaur is a writer based in the Indian Himalaya. Her first book – Sky Road, a work of nonfiction written in collaboration with the truck drivers of Manali-Leh Highway – is forthcoming on Particular Books (Penguin Press UK) and HarperCollins India. She received a PEN America/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for this project, besides a Literature Fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude, a Charles Wallace Fellowship at University of Stirling, Scotland and a residency at Sangam House, India. Simar was the editor of JetWings magazine before moving to the mountains in 2013. Her articles and stories have appeared in various publications including Commonwealth Writers’ adda, National Geographic Traveler, Papercuts and Stand Magazine.

In 2024, Simar Preet Kaur is a fellow in the transdisciplinary fellowship program »Field Trip« – a cooperation between Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Konstanz.