Sumana Roy is an Indian writer and poet. Her works include How I Became a Tree (2017), a work of non-fiction; Missing (2019), a novel; Out of Syllabus (2019), a collection of poems; and My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories (2019), a short story collection. Her unpublished novel Love in the Chicken’s Neck was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize (2008). Her first book, How I Became a Tree, a work of non-fiction, was shortlisted for the 2017 Shakti Bhatt Prize.
Books in order of publication:
How I Became a Tree – 2017
Missing (2019)
Out of Syllabus (2019),
My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories (2019)
Animalia Indica: The Finest Animal Stories in Indian Literature – 2019
Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries – 2024
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