Valya Dudycz Lupescu

Valya Dudycz Lupescu
Valya Dudycz Lupescu photographed in 2010 by Kyle Cassidy
Born	February 4, 1974 (1974-02-04) (age 37) Chicago, Illinois
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	Ukrainian American
Alma mater	DePaul University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Genres	magic realism, fantasy, speculative fiction
Notable work(s)	The Silence of Trees
Influences Margaret Atwood, E.B. White, Isabel Allende, Leslie Marmon Silko, Kazuo Ishiguro, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Gene Wolfe, James Joyce,various fairy tales,
www.vdlupescu.com

Valya Dudycz Lupescu (also known as Valya Lupescu) is a Ukrainian American writer of magic realism and speculative fiction.

Background and personal life

Second-generation Ukrainian American, Lupescu's writing reflects both her Ukrainian heritage and her American life.^[1] Valya holds an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lupescu holds a B.A. in English from DePaul University, Chicago. She has taught as a college instructor at DePaul University, Loyola University, and Columbia Collage in Chicago. Lupescu is the daughter of retired Illinois State Senator Walter W. Dudycz. For the last eight years, she and her family have divided their time between Frankfurt, Germany and the United States. She currently lives in Illinois.

Works

Valya Dudycz Lupescu (born February 4, 1974) is a writer who lives and works in Chicago. Her debut novel,The Silence of Trees, was published in 2010 by Wolfsword Press. Valya Dudycz Lupescu is also the founding editor of CONCLAVE: A Journal of Character. Her novel, The Silence of Trees, was selected as a Semifinalist in the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. She occasionally teaches workshops around Chicago and online. Lupescu founded and works creatively with artists/writers/musicians who are members of The Coop: Chicago Creative Collaborative Salon.

Contributions to the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame

Valya Dudycz Lupescu is on the board of directors for the Chicago Writers Association and was one of the founders of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame had its inaugural Induction Ceremony on November 20, 2010 at Northeastern Illinois University. Lupescu was the Director of Event Planning for the event that inducted: Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Lorraine Hansberry, Studs Terkel.^[2]

Books (author)

• The Silence of Trees (2010, Wolfsword Press)

Books (editor)

• Conclave: A Journal of Character (2008, 2009–2010) (Various artists and authors with a focus on character-driven prose, poetry, and art.)

See also

• Lupescu
• Magda Lupescu

References

1. ^ Thiel reviews The Silence of Trees by Valya Dudycz Lupescu
2. ^ Literary Hall of Fame's First Induction Ceremony Honors Our Greatest Writers

External links

• Valya Dudycz Lupescu Home Page
• Books To Look For, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction review of The Silence of Trees by Charles de Lint
• Book Review for The Nervous Breakdown by Kristin Thiel
• Book Review for The Romance Reviews by Veronica Marie Beaumont
• Interview on Between the Lines: Devoted to intelligent, opinionated booklovers and their bewildering array of idiosyncrasies by Kevin Nielson
• History of Conclave: A Journal of Character
• Coop: Chicago Creative Collaborative Salon
• Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Website
• Valya Dudycz Lupescu at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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Name	Dudycz Lupescu, Valya
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Date of birth	February 4, 1974
Place of birth	Chicago, IL
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