Arun Kamal is an Indian poet in modern Hindi literature with a progressive, ideological poetic style.

Apart from poetry, Kamal has also written criticism and has done translations in Hindi.

[citation needed] For literary writing, he adopted the name Arun Kamal.

[citation needed] He was born on 15 February 1954 at Nasriganj in Bihar.

He has been a professor in the English Department of Patna University.