Sumana Roy is an author, poet, literary critic and translator. Her books include the nonfiction works »How I Became a Tree« (2017) and »Provincials: Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal«, the novel »Missing«, and the poetry collections »Out of Syllabus« and »VIP: Very Important Plant«, She translated and introduced Jagadish Chandra Bose’s essays in »The Man Who Made Plants Write«. Her writing has appeared in «The Paris Review« and »Granta«, among other places. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University. Roy lives in Siliguri, India.
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