Born in Battersea, London, in 1955 to Maroon Jamaican artist, sculptor and writer, Namba Roy (1910-1961), and Yvonne Roy,

Shelley, an English actress, Lucinda Roy is an accomplished poet, novelist and Professor of Africana Studies at Virginia Tech, VA, United States. She is the author of two collections of poetry,

(1988) and

(1995), which won The Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize, two short stories, “Seeing Things in the Dark” (1999) and “Effigies” (2006), and two novels,

(1998) and

(2000). Her most recent effort is a non-fiction memoir-critique,

(2009), which details Roy’s personal experience of the 2007 school shooting that took place at…

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Citation: Laursen, Ole Birk. "Lucinda Roy". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 May 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3874, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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