Vegunta Mohan Prasad, (5 January 1942 – 3 August 2011) was a Telugu poet, critic, translator and writer.

[5] In 1967, he married Sujata, the daughter of Bondalapati Sivaramakrishna and Sakuntala Devi of Desi Kavita Mandali.

[6] Mo had deep interest in literature and upon his retirement, he took up the role of Director of Anusrijana,[7] the translation wing of Dravidian University, where he organized translations of about a hundred classic works from regional languages into English.

This Tense Time, published by Mo in 1982, is one of the first comprehensive volumes of modern Telugu poetry in English translation and was reviewed by the British poet and literary critic Derek Stanford.

Between Chiti – Chinta in 1969 and Mo –Nishadam in 2010,[10] he was prolific in his literary contributions in the form of poetry, appreciations and translations.