Anjoli Roy is a creative writer and high school English teacher in Honolulu. 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. Her writing has been
nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes, and has appeared in ANMLY, The Asian
American Literary Review, Cape Cod Review, Hoʻolana, Longreads, Menagerie, The Pinch,
Poem-a-Day, Short Reads, and other places. Find her at anjoliroy.com
