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Lucinda Roy (born December 19, 1955) is an American-based British novelist, educator and poet. ==Biography== She was born in Battersea, South London, England, to Namba Roy, a Jamaican writer and artist, and Yvonne Roy, an English actor and teacher. She grew up in England and received her Bachelor of Arts in English from King's College London before moving to the United States, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at the University of Arkansas. In 1988, she published her first collection of poetry, ''Wailing the Dead to Sleep.'' American poet Nikki Giovanni wrote the introduction. In 1995, Roy's second poetry collection, ''The Hummingbirds'', was selected by poet Lucille Clifton as the winner of the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize. Roy has also published two novels, the semi-autobiographical ''Lady Moses'' (HarperCollins, 1998) and ''Hotel Alleluia'' (HarperCollins, 2000). She is currently the Director of Creative Writing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, and was named Alumni Distinguished Professor of English. She is also the Vice President of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucinda Roy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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