Neelum Saran Gour[2][3] (born 12 October 1955) is an Indian English writer of fiction that depicts North India's small towns and their cultural histories.

She has edited a pictorial volume on the history and culture of the city of Allahabad, where she lives and works, and has also translated one of her early novels into Hindi.

Born in Allahabad, Neelum Saran Gour is the child of a Bengali mother and a Hindiphone father and was exposed to an array of languages and cultural influences in her childhood.

Educated in St. Mary's Convent Inter College, a school run by Roman Catholic nuns, she went on to study History, Philosophy and English Literature at the University of Allahabad in the early nineteen seventies.

[4] In 2002 appeared Virtual Realities[5] and in 2005 two novels were published, Sikandar Chowk Park[6][7][8] by Penguin, and Messres Dickens, Doyle and Wodehouse Pvt.

She has conducted Creative Writing workshops for the Sahitya Akademi and the Central University of Rajasthan, researched and worked on a BBC T.V.