PIA GHOSH-ROY grew up in Calcutta, India, and currently lives in Cambridge (UK). She has worked in advertising as a copywriter in Calcutta, Bangalore, Bombay and London. Her fiction appears in Prairie Schooner, Ambit, CRAFT, Lunch Ticket, Split Lip, Litro, River Teeth, Structo, Berfrois and other journals, along with prize anthologies.
She’s the recipient of the 2017 Hamlin Garland Award for her short story The Resurrection of Rakesh Sharma, the 2019 Cagibi Macaron Prize for her non-fiction Separated by the Wingspan of a Moth, and an Arts Council DYCP Grant in 2022. Her work has been short- and longlisted for the Brighton Prize, Bath Short Story Award, Berlin Writing Prize and Fish Short Story Prize amongst others.
Her debut novel, AND I AM THE ARROW, will be published by The Indigo Press in August 2026.
She is represented by Monica MacSwan at Aitken Alexander Associates, London.
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