Rituparna Roy is Initiator of the Kolkata Partition Museum Project that aims to establish a Partition Museum in Kolkata, focussing on the Bengal experience. An alumna of Presidency College and Calcutta University, she did her doctoral research in India (with two UGC Fellowships) and her postdoctoral research at Leiden, the Netherlands. She has taught at several institutions in Kolkata, Leiden, and The Hague. She is the author of South Asian Partition Fiction in English: From Khushwant Singh to Amitav Ghosh (Amsterdam University Press: 2010) & co-editor of the ICAS Volume, Writing India Anew: Indian English Fiction 2000-2010 (Amsterdam University Press: 2013). Roy blogs and writes features and reviews for online portals and magazines. Her maiden collection of shorts, Gariahat Junction, was published in 2020 by Kitaab International, Singapore. She is currently working on a non-fiction book and a co-edited volume of essays on the Bengal Partition that will be out from Routledge soon. She can be reached at royrituparna.com.