Anjoli Roy (she/her) is a creative writer and high school English teacher in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Her ancestors are from India, Germany, England, and Ireland. Anjoli has a BA in individualized study from NYU and an MA and PhD in English from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is a VONA/Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation and a Jack Hazard fellow.
Anjoli is the author of the chapbook, Enter the Navel: For the Love of Creative Nonfiction (The Operating System, 2020).
Her writing has appeared in ANMLY, The Asian American Literary Review, Cape Cod Review, Hoʻolana, Hippocampus, Longreads, Menagerie, The Pinch, Poem-a-Day, River Teeth, Short Reads, and other places.
Anjoli is PhDJ for “It’s Lit,” a literature-and-music podcast she cohosts with Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng that has featured more than 100 writers to date.
Anjoli is currently shopping around a speculative nonfiction memoir about her great-grandfather and freedom-fighter Kali Nath Roy.
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