Arpita Roy

Bio: Arpita Roy is an MFA student in Creative Writing Poetry. She completed her BA and MA in English from Jadavpur University. Born in West Bengal, Arpita spent her childhood in various cities in India, though Kolkata occupies a special place in her heart. She is a 2023 Cheuse Fellow, who visited Ireland, investigating the relationship between solitude and community. She is interested in understanding and responding to the poetic portrayals of this relationship by the English Romantics and Modernists. This summer Roy was selected as the winner of the Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Contributor Award in Poetry for the 2023 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. 

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