Bidyut Prabha was born on 12 July 1926 at her maternal uncle's home in a small village named Natara in the district of Kendrapara in a Karan family .
[1] She suffered from poor health during 1966, and indulged towards spirituality and moved to Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
[1] Though educated in urban area, her poems reflects memory of rural life of her childhood.
Considerably influenced by two Odia poets, Nanda Kishore Bal and Kunja Bihari Das, her poems deal with the problem of women that exist in an age-old conservative society.
Her collection of poems Bidyutprabha Sanchayana won the Odisha Sahitya Academy Award in 1962.