Sankar Roy

Sankar Roy is a winner of PEN USA Emerging Voices, associate editor of international poetry anthology, Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (Rupa & Co, Bayeux Arts) which was one of the three finalists for 2006 Benjamin Franklin Award and winner of Skipping Stone Honor Award. His poems have appeared or forthcoming in Bitter Oleander, Blue Color Review, Color Wheel, Diner, Pittsburgh City Paper, Runes and Whiskey Island. Sankar's recent project is creating an international website – www.writersalliance.net to create a worldwide artistic and literary response against the genocide in Darfur.