Lucinda RoyLucinda 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 nd 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. She is working on a series of oil paintings depicting the Middle Passage. Read More Read Less