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The Humming Birds: Poems
The fifth winner of the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize, selected by Lucille Clifton.
- GenresPoetry
88 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1995
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About the author
Lucinda Roy
14 books48 followersLucinda 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.
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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