Desamangalam Ramakrishnan is a Malayalam–language poet, translator, critic and teacher.
He was born in 1948 in Desamangalam in Thalapilly taluk, Trichur district.
Subsequently, he joined the Calicut University and researched on Malayalam poetry under K. N. Ezhuthachan.
He was awarded a fellowship from the Central Ministry of Culture.
He was a professor of Malayalam literature at the University of Kerala till his retirement in 2008.