Anjoli Roy is a writer and educator based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. She is the author of the experimental chapbook Enter the Navel: For the Love of Creative Nonfiction (The Operating System, 2020) and is currently seeking representation for Revolution in the Blood, a speculative memoir excavating the erased history of her great-grandfather, Kali Nath Roy, a journalist and freedom fighter in colonial India. She holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and has received support for her work as a 2025 Jack Hazard Fellow and a VONA/Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation Fellow.
Her writing has appeared in Longreads, which featured her essay on Memoir Monday; River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative; StoryQuarterly, where she was a runner-up for the Fourth Annual Nonfiction Prize; Waxwing Literary Journal; Kweli: Truth from the Diaspora’s Boldest Voices; and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day. She has also contributed to Creative Nonfiction’s Sunday Short Reads, The Asian American Literary Review, ANMLY, and other publications.
Beyond her own writing, Anjoli is the cohost of It’s Lit, a literature-and-music podcast that has featured more than 100 writers since 2016. She currently teaches English at Punahou School, where she received a Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction Award, and she has previously served as the Managing Editor for The Center for Biographical Research and Editor-in-Chief of Hawai‘i Review.
Anjoli is available for lectures, workshops, and readings.
