Krishna Roy, an academician and educational administrator by profession, has parallelly run another career in Bengali literary activities for more than two decades. Nowadays, she is mainly an essayist and biography writer, but sporadically writes short stories and bio-novels. For her contribution to the popularisation of science through writing, she was awarded the Dr. Jnyan Chandra Ghosh Memorial Award by the Science Association of Bengal in 2025. Nowadays, she is engaged in research work on unsung women scientists and nineteenth-century women. So far, she has 26 books to her credit.
Hobbies: Book reading, music, and travel.
