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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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PRAISE FOR AND I AM THE ARROW
‘A propulsive debut full of plot twists and family secrets, Pia Ghosh-Roy’s And I Am the Arrow plunges its readers deep into the troubled psyches of its main characters…makes us fall in love with each one. Her finely tuned yet playful and risk-taking writing style is both witty and heartbreaking…Ghosh-Roy walks a delicate balance between old-time storytelling and wild modernity, while exploring complex subjects with nuance, grace, and deep understanding of the human condition.’
Maureen Langloss, Editor-in-Chief, Split Lip Magazine
‘Set in old Calcutta, London, and New York, this intense intergenerational saga is told in many voices with passion and sparkling wit, as well as the foreboding of tragedy and the ghosts of the past.’
Namita Gokhale, author of Paro and Jaipur Diaries
‘A stunning debut novel exploring severed selves and the myriad ways we can hold one another close. The intricately layered chapters build a poly-vocal mosaic that reveals secrets and intimacies, drawing us in and keeping the pages turning. Ghosh-Roy’s prose, deftly moving between the playful and poetic, bristles with keen observations on life, death, and the spaces in between. I was deeply invested in the characters (and furious, at times, with some of them). What an achievement, what a story.’
Melissa Fu, author of Peach Blossom Spring
‘A brilliant, beautiful novel that swells with heart. I adored this rich, lyrical, linguistically playful, intergenerational story that spans decades, countries and cultures. The prose ducks and dives as past secrets spill into the present and the dead haunt the living with their wit and wisdom. A deeply-felt exploration of history and humanity, I loved every page of this voice-driven, propulsive novel. Remarkable! Ghosh-Roy’s characters – both the living and the dead – will haunt long after the last line.’
Rupert Dastur, author of Cloudless
‘To read this book is to feel as alive as a ghost, seeing, noticing, smelling, hearing lives that a jaded world renders subsonic. This is a desperately life-loving novel. I’ll read it again, now.’
Sumana Roy, author of How I Became a Tree and Missing
‘A gripping intergenerational story of wide compass and deep compassion. I enjoyed it enormously.’
Jo Baker, author of The Midnight News and Longbourn
‘Elegant and expansive…excavates the fault lines of family life with great sensitivity and grace.’
Mahesh Rao, author of One Point Two Billion and Half Light
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