Tarun Kanti Mishra (born 2 August 1950) is an Indian Odia story writer.
[2] Tarun Kanti Mishra's first story Hey Pruthibira Naagarika was published in the reputed literary magazine Aasantaakaali at the age of fourteen.
His first anthology of short stories was published in 1968 while studying BJB College, Bhubaneswar.
Many of his works have been translated into Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, and English.
[4] He authored a novel against the backdrop of Dandakaranya, a vast territory inhabited by immigrants of erstwhile East Pakistan and a large tribal population.