Gayatribala Panda (born 17 April 1977) is an Indian poet, fiction writer and journalist from Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

She studied library and information science from Utkal University and emerged as a topper.

Later, she studied journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkenal.

In 2022, she received Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Odia for her poetry Dayanadi.

[6] In 2011, Panda won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar literary honour in the poetry genre for Gaan, a collection of poems.