Anjoli Roy is a creative writer and high school English teacher. Her dissertation, written while pursuing a PhD in English at UH Mānoa, is titled “Where the Water Is” and is a book-length collection of creative nonfiction stories about her family. Anjoli is also a cohost with Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng of a podcast recently profiled in Honolulu Magazine, "It's Lit with PhDJ," which features writers to love and the music their work plays best around.