Bhawani Shankar Nial is a poet, editor & thinker. Originally an Odia poet of high repute, he also write in Hindi is the author of 3 poetry collection in Odia, 2 in Hindi and 2 in English. He is the Chief Editor of ‘Mahuri’ a widely circulated Odia literary magazine. His poetry embodies a hieroglyphic manifestation on variegated minutiae of human condition and relationships. His poetic oeuvre each impregnated with multidimensional themes of love and longings at one hand and unmusical theme of bread, food, hunger etc. on the other.