Swayam Prashant (pen name of Prashanta Kumar Sahoo which he has adopted since 2019) was born in Chhedakani village in the then undivided Cuttack District (now included in Kendrapara District), Odisha, India. He has been writing English poetry since his school days. Formerly he was an Associate Professor of English and the Head of the Department of English at Sarupathar College, Assam, India. He has authored six books and two booklets: Evaluation of Textbooks in the Teaching of English (2013), Values in Life (2013), Live Like A Man (poetry) (2014), Haiku from the Garden of My Own (poetry) (2014), Knowledge Tree (miscellaneous prose writings) (2014), Premras Amrit (poetry in Assamese) (2019), and two booklets - Virgin Land Impregnated (a thematic study of Canadian folk songs) (2012) and Joy of Love (love poetry)(2009).

His poems have been published in the following international anthologies: Voice of United Eleven (2011)(in India), Peerless...