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NEWS: Lucinda Roy awarded

Virginia Press Women's

2009 Newsmaker of the Year Award

New from Lucinda Roy

Now available in a Kindle Edition

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No Right to Remain Silent:

The Tragedy at Virginia Tech

Lucinda Roy's Poetry

Hear Lucinda Roy read a poem from her collection The Humming Birds, published by Eighth Mountain Press:

"For My Son"

Lucinda Roy is an alumni distinguished professor at Virginia Tech.  She earned her B.A. from King’s College, London, and her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Arkansas. She has an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Richmond.  Roy has been at Virginia Tech since 1985, and has won a number of teaching and administration awards, including the college-wide Excellence in Administration Award, the university-wide Alumni Award for Teaching Excellence, and a SCHEV statewide Outstanding Faculty Award from the Commonwealth of Virginia.  She directed Virginia Tech’s Creative Writing program for eight years, and served as Chair of English from 2002-2006.

Roy has published the novels Lady Moses and The Hotel Alleluia, and two collections of poetry. Lady Moses was selected by Barnes and Noble for their Discover Great New Writers series, and Roy won the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize for The Humming Birds. She was awarded the Baxter Hathaway Poetry Prize for her long slave narrative poem “Needlework.” Roy’s memoir-critique, No Right to Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech, was published by Harmony/Random House this year. Her commentaries and articles have appeared in numerous newspapers and journals, including the New York Times, USA Today, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Newsweek’s 2009 college guide, and she has been a guest on many TV and radio shows including NPR’s Diane Rehm Show, the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, and Sunday Morning. 

Recently, Roy was named by Virginia Press Women as 2009 Newsmaker of the Year. Roy teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in creative writing and literature at Virginia Tech, and gives keynotes and presentations in the U.S. and abroad on higher education reform, campus safety, race, women’s issues, and creativity.