NAYANTARA ROY is the author of The Magnificent Ruins, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice Novel of 2024, a Los Angeles Times Editor’s Pick, a Washington Post Best Book, a People Magazine Best Book, an Apple Best Debut, a Hachette Book Club pick, and a Gold House Book Club pick, among others. The Magnificent Ruins is being adapted for the screen. Her second novel, Sisters of the Halved Heart, is forthcoming in the spring of 2026. In 2018, Roy won the Rick DeMarinis Award for her short story 8C. Her plays have been performed internationally, in the UK and India. By day, she is the Senior Vice President of Television at Sandbox Entertainment where she acquires and develops original scripted series. Roy lives in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.

Roy is a 2025 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference New Voices Fellow.

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