Hemant Mohapatra

{{short description|Indian poet writing in English}}

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Hemant Mohapatra is an Indian poet writing in English. He is featured in the 2011 Best New Poets series distributed by University of Virginia Press.{{Cite web|url=http://bestnewpoets.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/best-new-poets-2011-final-fifty.html|title = Best New Poets: Best New Poets 2011 Final Fifty|date = 6 August 2011}} His work has been published in some international journals such as Eclectica, BrinkLit, Asia Writes and the Paterson Literary Review as part of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards series.http://www.pccc.edu/uploads/27/fe/27fea3801f83813bdc68401e2305155c/Allen-Ginsberg-11w.pdf{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He is also the winner of the second Srinivas Rayaprol Award {{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/article825678.ece|title = Rayaprol prize announced|newspaper = The Hindu|date = 12 October 2010}} and the HarperCollins Poetry Prize. He is currently based in India.