Rabindra K Swain has five books of poems, the last one being This House is not for Knowing and five books of translation from Odia which include Sourindra Barik’s poetry collection Intimate as the Sky and Rajendra Kishore Panda’s Bahubreehi. He has two critical works: The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra: A Critical Study and Silent Tongues: Writings in Contemporary Indian English Poetry. His poems were published in periodicals such as The Times Literary Supplement, Critical Quarterly, The Kenyon Review, The Literary Review, World Literature Today, Shenandoah, Verse, Ariel, Kunapipi, Wasafiri and Westerly. He is the editor of Varnamala Anthology of Twentieth Century Odia Poetry. He was managing editor of Chandrabhaga magazine.