Sivasankari (born 14 October 1942) is an Indian author and activist who writes in Tamil.

She is one of the four Tamil writers asked by the United States Library of Congress to record their voice as part of the South Asian article on Sivashankari.

[2] Including herself, all the children in her family were educated in the Sri Ramakrishna Mission and Sarada Vidyalaya schools.

[4] Her novels were made into the films Avan Aval Adhu (1980) Novel Oru Singam Muyalagiradhu Directed by Muktha Srinivasan (125days) 47 Natkal (1981) directed by K. Balachander and starred Chiranjeevi and Jaya Prada.

She is the author of the novel, which was made into a TV series called Subah on Doordarshan in 1987.