Swapna Behera is a bilingual contemporary poet, author, educationist, critic, translator, social worker and editor from Odisha, India. Her stories, poems and articles are widely published in Newspapers, International journals, magazines Anthologies and ezines and translated in different languages. She is a post graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in Education. Swapna worked as a teacher for over three decades at the Mont Fort School 1984-1995 and Kendriya Vidyalayas1995-2015, has received several outstanding recognitions for teaching excellence. She retired as a teacher from Kendriya idyalaya Sangathan, an Autonomous body Under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India in July 2015. She was a trained teacher in substance Abuse Prevention Education. She has presented her paper on The Responsibility of Religions for a humane world in the National Seminar on World Religions for a humane world ; A step towards Inter Religious Dialogue on24-25.2.2017 in Patkai Nagaland. Resource person in the Lok Mahotsav Sambalpur and presented a paper on Indigenous Knowledge of the people of Western Odisha in 2001. She was the YUVA JAGAT artist of All India Radio Cuttack. She was the Judge of the international INT’L Essay Competition, Nigeria 2017. She has taken an active part in the KINDLING THE KINDNESS PROGRAMME in the flood affected Ebion Public School of Mazuli, the world’s largest Island in 2017. She was a panellist in Cuttack Literary Festival 2018.
Her poems are published in the Inter National Anthologies " Tomb Of Words" from America, "Time Less Love ",Lang Lit", “Hung On the Cross" “Creative corner”, ”The Poetry Wall”, ”My Sweetest Love”,,Diff Truth, “Voices of Humanity”, ”Rock Peebles”, Lang Lit, Amarvati Inter National Multilingual Anthology 2016 & 2017,InterNational Multilingual Poetry Anthology of women Poets [Women Wit & Wisdom}, Indifaring Muse, Heart Heart, Complexion Based Discrimination, Symphony of Peace, Pravati Tara, Chanakya in Hndi, Veena in Hindi, Yugashee Yuganaree, Sucharita,Vasudha, And the Rhythm Endures, Sabdalipi in Odia,Fun –N Frolic,International Anthology for World Peace,World Poetry on Let there be Peace a paradigm for Peace Strategies, Complexion Based Discriminations Global insight,Sambad Kalika, Prajatantra, Prameya and in several newspapers.
She is the winner of the poetry competition of Spring the Season of Love Anthology.
