Anita Roy is a writer, editor and environmentalist. Her father is Bengali and her mother English, and she grew up in the UK. She lived and worked in Delhi for twenty years before returning to settle in southwest England in 2015.
She has worked as a commissioning editor with publishing houses both in the UK and in India: Routledge, Manchester University Press, Oxford University Press, Dorling Kindersley and Zubaan.
She has written for children and adults, edited and co-edited several books, and has contributed both as a freelance travel writer, reviewer and columnist to journals and magazines such as Granta, Guernica, Dark Mountain, Resurgence & Ecologist, Indian Quarterly, Outlook Traveller, and Hindu Business Line. Her recent books include the award-winning children’s novel, Gravepyres School for the Recently Deceased, and Gifts of Gravity and Light: A Nature Almanac for the 21st Century, co-edited with Pippa Marland. Her columns for the Guardian’s Country Diary column can be found here.
She is currently the chair of Transition Town Wellington.
