ROBERTA M ROY, is the winner of the 2021 Jenkins International eLit Awards Gold Medal for Current Events II (Social Issues/Public Affairs/Ecological/Humanitarian) and the Silver Medal for Multicultural Fictionbook for her current events historical novel, Home Again 2020 (Jolt Survival Trilogy Book 3). And in 2020 she medaled in the 2020 Jenkins International eLit Awards in Poetry for Slivers: Poems by Roberta M Roy and in 2011 in Inspirational Fiction in the Jenkins 2011 Living Now Awards for Jolt: a rural noir.

Her recently released Jolt Survival Trilogy includes revised issues of Jolt and Two Close and the recently published Home Again 2020. In Jolt, terrorism and a nuclear meltdown, separate the Matters family. In Two Close, Mary Matters recuperates from radiation sickness and the boys seek to survive on their own. In Home Again 2020, Lou Matters struggles to cope with the effects of right-side brain injury that has caused left side blindness or hemianopsia. It is the year 2020 and just as the reunited Matters family moves toward a renewed balance, COVID-19 closes the society and with it the educational system. The boys and Mary, a speech language pathologist in the public schools, are caught in the crosshairs of distant learning while around them, political, societal, and climatic changes reach heightened levels of menace. Home Again 2020 is a story of a family's courage and determination in year unlike any previous.

Other books by Roy include The ALVA Axiom Anthology of Author Interviews (ALVA Press 2014) which highlights Roy's work as an editor interviewer, and Straight from the Robin's Nest (2015), her work as an essayist.

Roy holds a B.A. in English from the State University at Albany, NY; an M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Nebraska; a Certificate of Clinical Competency in Speech-Language Pathology from the American Speech-Language Association (ASHA); and is a license as a Speech-Language Pathologist in the State of New York. Roy's background particularly qualifies her to write humanistic historical fiction and sci-fi with literary quality.

Roy resides in the Mid-Hudson Valley in New York State where she is the creative lead and owner-operator of ALVA Press Inc at http://alvapressinc.com/.