As an award-winning novelist, Roberta M Roy’s book Home Again 2020 (Jolt Survival Trilogy Book 3) took the Gold Medal for Current Events II (Social Issues/Public Affairs/Ecological/ Humanitarian) and Silver Medal for Multicultural Fiction in the Jenkins 2021 International eLit awards and Jolt: a rural noir (Book 1) took the 2011 Jenkins Living Now Inspirational Fiction Award. Her book Slivers: Poems by Roberta M Roy, medaled in the 2020 Jenkins International eLit Awards in Poetry. Roy is a certified teacher of secondary English and a NYS Licensed Speech Language Pathologist.