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Lucinda Roy is an Alumni Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at Virginia Tech where she teaches in the MFA program. Her awards include the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize for The Humming Birds, a Discover Great New Writers selection from Barnes and Noble for her novel Lady Moses, and the Baxter Hathaway Poetry Prize for her slave narrative "Needlework." She received the Newsmaker of the Year award from the Virginia Press Women in recognition of her memoir No Right to Remain Silent: What We've Learned from the Tragedy at Virginia Tech. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies.
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102 pages, Paperback
Published February 1, 2017
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Lucinda Roy
14 books49 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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March 19, 2017
Fabric: Poems holds many succinct lines that carry a powerful message for readers. It’s a passionate collection of poetry that offers up a raw truth alongside its alluring words. Many lines strike the core of what history has held for us, and Lucinda Roy does so in a manner deserving of respect. These poems will produce a wide range of emotions, and yet will make you feel enlightened at the same time. It is a bundle of vivid and rich lines, and this can be seen especially here:
“Something bubbles inside his head. He lies
awake at night by the fetid open sewers
and listens to militias of rats on food raids.
Disarmed and dangerous, the child waits for democracy
to spring a leak.”
Review by Dennise Garcia
“Something bubbles inside his head. He lies
awake at night by the fetid open sewers
and listens to militias of rats on food raids.
Disarmed and dangerous, the child waits for democracy
to spring a leak.”
Review by Dennise Garcia
January 15, 2020
Lucinda is one of the kindest authors I've had the privilege of working with. And what a wealth of knowledge and experience and bravery she brings to this book. The first poem is particularly timely. There are no racists like English racists! The range of politics, history, and culture in this book is deft and seamless. We travel from London, to Sierra Leone, to the Virginia Tech shooting.
June 2, 2021
Lucinda was one of my best Teachers at Virginia Tech. Her poems are imagistic, reveleatory and deep. Lucinda helped me to understand the process of uncovering the “ oridinary extraordinary” that surrounds us each day and to seek the truth within each poem.
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