Vandana Kumari Jena is an officer of the 1979 batch of the Indian Administrative Service. She belongs to the Odisha cadre. She writes middles, novels, short stories and poetry. Her stories and poems have been published in over twenty anthologies. Her first novel, ‘The Dance of Death’, was published in 2008. Her collection of short stories entitled ‘The Incubation Chamber’ was published in 2014. Another collection of short stories entitled ‘The Future is Mine’ was published in 2015. She is married with two sons. She lives in New Delhi.