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Lucinda Roy

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Battersea, South London, The United Kingdom

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Lucinda Roy is an award-winning novelist, poet, and memoirist and author of the speculative slave narrative novel trilogy entitled THE DREAMBIRD CHRONICLES (Tor Books/Macmillan). THE FREEDOM RACE, the first novel in the trilogy, was published in July 2021. FLYING THE COOP, the second novel in the series, is out in July 2022.

Lucinda Roy, Alumni Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at Virginia Tech gives keynotes and addresses on race and racism, creative writing, education, and campus safety. One of the most pervasive refrains in her writing and painting is slavery and the miracles that accompanied it--survival and the ability to translate suffering into something rich and rare and strange.

Born in the U.K. in Battersea, South London Lucinda Roy is an award-winning novelist, poet, and memoirist and author of the speculative slave narrative novel trilogy entitled THE DREAMBIRD CHRONICLES (Tor Books/Macmillan). THE FREEDOM RACE, the first novel in the trilogy, was published in July 2021. FLYING THE COOP, the second novel in the series, is out in July 2022.

Lucinda Roy, Alumni Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at Virginia Tech gives keynotes and addresses on race and racism, creative writing, education, and campus safety. One of the most pervasive refrains in her writing and painting is slavery and the miracles that accompanied it--survival and the ability to translate suffering into something rich and rare and strange.

Born in the U.K. in Battersea, South London to Namba Roy, Jamaican writer, artist, and factory worker, and Yvonne Roy, an English actor and teacher, Lucinda Roy has lived and taught in the U.S., the U.K., and West Africa.

Her first two novels Lady Moses, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, and Hotel Alleluia were published by HarperCollins. In 1995, Roy's poetry collection, The Hummingbirds, was selected by Lucille Clifton as the winner of the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize. Her most recent poetry collection Fabric(Willow Books) appeared in 2017. She won the Baxter Hathaway Poetry Prize for her long slave narrative poem "Needlework."

In 2009, following the mass shootings at Virginia Tech, her memoir-critique NO RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT: WHAT WE'VE LEARNED FROM THE TRAGEDY AT VIRGINIA TECH was published by Random House.

She has appeared on many television, radio, and online venues, and her prose and poetry have been published in numerous magazines and journals. Professor Roy is working on the third novel in THE DREAMBIRD CHRONICLES series, an illustrated children's book, and, as time permits, a series of oil paintings depicting the Middle Passage. She lives with her husband in Blacksburg and teaches in the undergraduate and graduate creative writing programs at Virginia Tech.

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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Lucinda Roy One of the mysteries in my own life that could be a plot for a book is related to a few instances when I sensed something was about to happen, or I dr…moreOne of the mysteries in my own life that could be a plot for a book is related to a few instances when I sensed something was about to happen, or I dreamed it occurred before it did. I think it's one reason why in THE FREEDOM RACE and in FLYING THE COOP, the next book in the series, dreams play a central role in the psyches of characters. The epigraph that opens the book "Dreams are promises the imagination makes to itself," assigned to the mysterious Toteppi tribe, is true for me. Dreams and imagination are linked in mysterious and magical ways. The episodes where I appeared to foresee an event shook me enough that I took careful note of them. I briefly mentioned the first dream I remember in my poem "Carousel" about my father's death when I was five years old. The line in the poem is simple: "I dreamed you died." It's true. The next morning when I awoke, my mother stood next to the bed and said simply, "Daddy's dead." I replied, "I dreamed it," even though I had no idea how sick he was prior to that moment. (Children weren't allowed to enter wards in the UK in those days, and there was a lot of prejudice directed at biracial children and at mixed marriages in particular.) I'm glad you asked this question. I think as writers we often work through the mysteries that haunt us in our novels. It's how we come to terms with our own ghosts.(less)

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What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Lucinda Roy The best thing about being a writer is being able to invent new worlds to live in. Whether they are embedded in speculation or realism, the characters…moreThe best thing about being a writer is being able to invent new worlds to live in. Whether they are embedded in speculation or realism, the characters in these worlds have the capacity to empower and inspire, as if they created themselves and had absolutely nothing to do with me. I can't think of anything I would rather do than write...except eat...and sleep...and lie on a beach with a strawberry daquiri....(less)

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	No Right to Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech 3.34 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Freedom Race (The Dreambird Chronicles, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lady Moses 3.62 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1998 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hotel Alleluia 3.75 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flying the Coop: The Dreambird Chronicles, Book Two 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Humming Birds: Poems 4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fabric it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bird Tribe: The Dreambird Chronicles, Book Three 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wailing the Dead to Sleep by Lucinda Roy (Goodreads Author), Nikki Giovanni (Introduction) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Flying the Coop

Flying the Coop, the second novel in my Dreambird Chronicles trilogy, is out today.

Many years ago, I conceived of a future world where the U.S. has fractured along racial and rural vs. urban divides to become the Disunited States. It's frightening to see how much closer we are getting to the post-second Civil War world depicted in the novel.

In this series, enslaved so-called "botanicals" (import Read more of this blog post »

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