Prashanti Talpankar is a teacher by profession, Associate Professor at Dnyanprasarak Mandal's College & Research Centre, Assgao, Goa. A social activist from student days, she also writes short stories, children's stories, drama scripts and columns for newspapers. Also as a translator, she has bagged Sahitya Academy Award in 2017 for a Konkani translation of Shashi Deshpande's English novel 'That Long Silence'. She also acts in films and dramas.