'The Pink Cake' was selected among the top ten best stories of 2023 by Urmilla Anand Memorial Awards jury.

As a teenager she was inspired by Gulshan Nanda’s novels. She began her literary journey by writing Punjabi poems. Arvinder Kaur is a gifted translator and transliterator of Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi books. Her writings include Khasmakhanian, Bullah, Teesri Dastak, Border-Border, Dukh Darya, Jodiyaan Jagg Thodiyaan, and Shahid Nadeem de Natak. She has also produced works of literary criticism in drama.

She has been honoured with the ‘Kalaa Ratan Purskaar 2013’ and the ‘Gurdial Singh Phull Yaadgari Sabha’ and ‘Principal Sujan Singh Yadgari Utshahvardhak Sanman 2020’. In 2021 the Jhanjaran Wale Paer short story collection was conferred the Dalbir Chetan Yadgari Purskar Award.