Sumana Roy's short story "Award-winning Writer" was selected for the anthology 21 Under 40 (Zubaan, 2007); her poems and essays have won prizes in India and British Columbia. A few of her poems have been published by Biblio and Tate Etc while her review essays have appeared in Himal Southasian, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, Tehelka, Marie Claire and The Book Review. Her short essay won the second prize at the Kala Ghoda Essay Contest 2008. Love in the Chicken’s Neck surrounds Indian English writer Bhaskar Sen who is searching for the subject of his next novel, orphan and revolutionary Nirjhar who is searching for the manuscript of the first Rajbangshi 'novel', Tirna's childhood friend Balram, a Nepali exile who is looking for an appropriate national anthem for a future republic, and Tirna. This is as much a story of Tirna's loves as it is of the amoral character of the small town of Siliguri, the 'Chicken's Neck'. sumana001@gmail.com