Hiranmayee Mishra

Hiranmayee Mishra is a novelist and poet from Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Life Mishra was born to novelist Madan Mohan Mishra and Anasuya Mishra. She has two older brothers and a younger one. Her elder sister, Chinmayee Sarangi, is also a writer. She is an alumnus of Utkal University. She had completed her PhD from University of York, England, UK. Mishra teaches Political Science and Women's Studies at the Udayanath Autonomous College of Science & Technology, Adaspur, Cuttack. She is a novelist and poet and also the director of Centre for Women's Studies.

Recognition In 2007, she was awarded a fellowship by International Ford Foundation, USA which took her to UK for three years to pursue a PhD in Women's Studies in University of York, England, On her coming back in 2011, she was awarded Timepass Booker Award for her story collection, Ratira Sathi. In 2018, she was awarded the Kanhei Katha Puraskar honour for her contribution to Odia fiction.