Shailesh Kumar Mishra is a renowned educationist. He is working as an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Higher Education of the Government of Chhattisgarh. He worked as a teacher educator for 'Oracle Education Foundation (USA)'. He is an academic facilitator and linguist. He composes poetry in English, Hindi and Chhattisarhi. He has been awarded with “Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan Shikshak Samman”.