"Memory steeped in savory flavor, shaped by loving preparation, Anjoli Roy brings us to the table of familial love then delivers us from grieving with 'Sandesh.'”
—Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Kore Press’s Poem of the Week
"Not only is Anjoli Roy's 'Tigers, Woman, Eels: A Family History' a moving piece with a clear emotional arc, it features the sort of vivid scenes and quirky detail that could make for a fabulous short."
—Gish Jen, COG Page to Screen Award
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CREATIVE NONFICTION
- CNF Chapbooks
- “Enter the Navel: For the Love of Creative Nonfiction,” The Operating System
- Author interview: “Agile Histories of Home : An OS [re:con]versation with Anjoli Roy” by Elæ [Lynne DeSilva-Johnson]
- “Grandpa Was a Skin Diver: 20 Directives for a Wet-Cat Granddaughter,” ANMLY, long-listed for the 2020 Disquiet Literary Contest, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net
- “Enter the Navel: For the Love of Creative Nonfiction,” The Operating System
- CNF Stories
- “Birthing Ancestors,” Waxwing, nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize
- “Feast or Feathers: On Alopecia Areata,” The Bellingham Review, republished in Kaleidoscope
- Author interview: Contributor Spotlight: Anjoli Roy
- “For the Birds,” River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Beautiful Things
- “Good Intentions and a Bad Idea,” Hippocampus Magazine
- “How It’s Done: New Year’s, South Africa, June 2004,” The Big Stupid Review
- “Lit on the Radio Waves: Holding Space in Hawaiʻi,” The Asian American Literary Review
- “Love Letter to Kurseong,” Hawaiʻi Review, third-place winner of the Ian MacMillan Writing Awards for Creative Nonfiction
- “My Brown Dad Voted for Trump,” Longreads, also featured on Memoir Monday
- “Our Stories Are Sacred, On Knowing Who We Are,” Kaʻupu Hehi ʻAle
- “This Part of the Body,” Middle Planet
- “Roxy and the Worm Box,” Creative Nonfiction‘s Sunday Short Reads #125, a top-ten most-read story of 2021
- “Walls,” Hawaii Women’s Journal, published in an earlier version by Diverse Voices Quarterly
FICTION
- “Baby,” Hawai‘i Review
- “Invisible,” The Big Stupid Review
- “A Love as Good As,” Kweli: Truth from the Diaspora’s Boldest Voices
- “Without Being Told” (excerpt), KUY: Stories and Poems
POETRY
- “From Bani Roy’s Recipes for Excellent Bengali Meals,” Entropy’s Cooking Origin Stories
- “Sandesh,” Kore Press: Poem of the Week
- “When the Mouth Closes,” Spiral Orb; republished in Read Water: An Anthology, edited by Hari Alluri, Garrett Bryant, and Amanda Fuller
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