Sumana Roy is the author of two works of nonfiction, How I Became a Tree (2019) and Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries (2025); Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal (2024), a work of literary criticism; Missing: A Novel (2018); My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories (2019); and two collections of poems, Out of Syllabus (2019) and VIP: Very Important Plant (2022). She teaches at Ashoka University.