About Lucinda Roy

Lucinda Roy is an award-winning novelist, poet, and memoirist. The Bird Tribe is her ninth book. A distinguished professor emerita, who co-founded the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Virginia Tech, she relocated to speculative fiction for this Dreambird Chronicles trilogy because of the freedom it offered to enter realms a rigid adherence to realism doesn’t allow. Her commentaries have appeared in numerous newspapers and journals, including USA Today, the Guardian, and the New York Times. She has lived and taught on three continents and is recognized for her keynotes on creative writing, diversity, campus safety, and higher education.

Apainting from Lucinda's Middle Passage series: "Suffering the Sea Change: Not Venus But Rising." Oil on canvas, 3' x 4'. ©Lucinda Roy