Neelum Saran Gour (born 12 October 1955) is a well-known Indian English writer of fiction who represents a special category of fiction that arose in the early 1990s and depicted the world of North India's small towns and their vibrant cultural histories.
She is the author of five novels, four collections of short stories and one work of literary non-fiction.
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.
In recent years she has come to be recognized as one of the leading practitioners of Indian English fiction coming out of the North Indian heartland.