Lucinda Roy

Novelist, poet, and memoirist Lucinda Roy's speculative novel THE FREEDOM RACE, Volume I of THE DREAMBIRD CHRONICLES series, will be published by Tor/Macmillan in July 2021. Among her previous books are the memoir NO RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT: What We've Learned from the Tragedy at Virginia Tech, the novel LADY MOSES (a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection) and the poetry collection THE HUMMING BIRDS, winner of the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize. A Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech, she gives keynotes and presentations around the country on creative writing, race and racism, diversity, and campus safety. She's worked in the U.S., the U.K., and West Africa, and her passions include writing, teaching, oil painting, and (when all else fails) laughing till it hurts. Her White English mother taught her biracial offspring to "dance like trees" on Clapham Common, and her Black Jamaican-Maroon father taught her to remember her ancestors'