Paramita Satpathy is a bilingual writer who writes in Odia and English. Her publications include short story collections, novels, a novella, and poetry collections. Her short story collection Prapti (A Boundless Moment) received the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2016 and her recent novel in Odia Abhipret Kaal (A Time Desired), based on the last part of the freedom struggle in Odisha, received the Sarala Puraskar for 2021 and was also shortlisted for the First Bank of Baroda Rashtra Bhasha Samman. She is an officer of the Indian Revenue Service.