A PhD on the poetry of John Keats and LLB from LN Mithila University, Darbhanga, and CELTA from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Vijay Kumar Roy is the author of Realm of Beauty and Truth: A Collection of Poems (2016), Premanjali (2009), a collection of poems in Hindi, and editor of The Melodies of Immortality (2012), an anthology of poetry, Post-Independence Indian Poetry in English: New Experimentation (2015), English Language Teaching: New Approaches and Methods (2013), Spiritual Poetry of India in English Translation (2012), Contemporary Indian Spiritual Poetry in English: Critical Explorations (2012), Teaching of English: New Dimensions (2012), Indian Poetry in English: A Comprehensive Study (2011), Women's Voice in Indian Fiction in English (2011), and coedited: Comparative Literature: Critical Responses (2014), Contemporary Indian Fiction in English: Critical Studies (2013), Value Education and Professional Ethics: An Anthology (2013), and Humanities and Social Sciences: The Quintessence of Education (2012) and co-translator and editor of K. Sekhar's Hindi- Speak with the Hearts of Indians (2013). 

Editor-in-chief of Ars Artium, an international research journal of humanities and social sciences (www.arsartium.org). Teaching English at Northern Border University, Arar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Previously at SRM University, NCR Campus, Ghaziabad, UP (INDIA).