Sumana Roy

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Sumana Roy is the author of two works of nonfiction, How I Became a Tree and Provincials, as well as Missing: A Novel, My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories, and two collections of poems, Out of Syllabus and VIP: Very Important Plant. She teaches at Ashoka University in Sonipat, Haryana.

  • The cover to Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries by Sumana Roy

    Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries by Sumana Roy

    Sumana Roy
    New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2024. 352 pages.Scribe. 2025. 480 pages.Sumana Roy is an Indian poet, novelist, nonfiction writer, and faculty member in the English dep…
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    Rurban Village

    November 2024
    Sumana Roy
    Village scene in Santiniketan / Photo by Eric Parker / Flickr In a country where wanting to remain rural is a choice now only available to the wealthy, what does rural mean? Here, Sumana Roy conte…
  • The cover to Missing by Sumana Roy

    Missing by Sumana Roy

    Sumana Roy
    New Delhi. Aleph. 2018. 261 pages.Missing, Sumana Roy’s first novel after her highly acclaimed first work of nonfiction, is a modern retelling of the oldest Hindu epic, the Ramayana.…
  • The cover to How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy

    How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy

    Sumana Roy
    New Delhi. Aleph. 2017. 244 pages.As with acts of observing the complex structures of trees, it takes a few rounds of intense readerly attention to detect the subtle patterns in Sumana Roy’s exquisite…