Ruby Gill

Ruby Mary Gill is a South Africa-born, Australia-based musician and poet whose “lyrical wizardry” has earned her the reputation of ‘unmissable’.

Ruby is also a two-time nominee for the Australian Music Prize, and was recently shortlisted as a top 3 artist for her ARIA-charting, globally renowned sophomore record ‘Some Kind Of Control.’

Her writing on sex, queerness, grief, roadkill and birds has been published widely in the Saturday Paper, Harvard Advocate, Griffith Review, Verandah Journal, Unyoked Anthology and more. Ruby’s debut poetry book ‘I’m not exaggerating when I say’ was released in Dec 2025, selling out its first print run before launch day was over.

In her spare time, Ruby is a Birdlife Ambassador, wandering around the bush, updating her bird-watching excel spreadsheet. It is extensive.

“Raw, fearless, and quietly revolutionary.” – Rolling Stone