Basudhara Roy is Assistant
Professor of English at Karim City College, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. An
alumnus of Banaras Hindu University, she holds a Ph.D. in diaspora women’s
writing from Kolhan University, Chaibasa. Her areas of academic interest are diaspora
writing, cultural studies, gender studies and postmodern criticism. As a poet
and reviewer, her work is featured/upcoming in anthologies and magazines like The
Helter Skelter Anthology of New Writing in English, The Aleph Review, The
Poetry Society of India, Mad in Asia Pacific, Teesta, Borderless, Muse India,
Shabdadguchha, Cerebration, Rupkatha, Triveni, and Setu among others. She
has authored two books, Migrations of Hope (Criticism; New Delhi:
Atlantic Publishers, 2019) and Moon in My Teacup (Poetry; Kolkata:
Writer’s Workshop, 2019). Her second poetry collection, Stitching a Home,
is forthcoming in 2021.