Usha Kiran Khan (born 1945) is a Hindi-Maithil writer and retired academic historian.In 2011, she won a Sahitya Akademi Award for the Maithili novel Bhamati: Ek Avismaraniya Premkatha.The award is presented by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.In 2012, she was awarded a Kusumanjali Sahitya Samman by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations for her novel Sirjanhaar.This was the first year that the awards had been given and they included a purse of Rs.2,50,000.Got Padma Shree 2015 for her service in the field of Literature and Education.