[2] Roy's first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, was picked up for publication after she shared initial pages with writer and publisher Christopher MacLehose, and has been translated into eighteen languages.
[9] The Earthspinner, her fifth novel, was published by Hachette India and the Mountain Leopard Press, London, in September 2021.
[11] It was shortlisted for the Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2022, as well as the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022.
[12][13] In December 2023, the French translation of this novel, titled Le Cheval en Feu, was hailed by Radio France as its literary discovery of the year.
[14] Her essays and reviews have appeared in newspapers and magazines in India (Indian Express; Telegraph; The Hindu), the US (Orion and Noema) and Britain (Guardian, The Economist), and most recently in John Freeman, ed., Tales of Two Planets.