Mamang Dai is a poet and novelist from Arunachal Pradesh. A former journalist and President, Arunachal Pradesh Union of Working Journalists, Dai’s first publication Arunachal Pradesh: The Hidden Land (2003) received the state Verrier Elwin Award. She also worked with World Wide Fund for nature in the Eastern Himalaya Biodiversity Hotspots programme, and was Member, Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (2011-20017). In 2011, Dai was awarded the Padma Shri (literature and education), and the Sahitya Akademi Award, 2017, for her book The Black Hill, in English. Dai lives in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India.