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Zelda Lockhart

Zelda Lockhart is a contemporary African-American writer, speaker, teacher and researcher. Her latest novel is [http://Trinity%20HarperCollins https://www.harpercollins.com/products/trinity-zelda-lockhart?variant=40902291947554] July 2023 release. She is the director of [http://LaVenson%20Press https://lavensonpressstudios.com/] and [http://Her%20Story%20Garden%20Studios https://herstorygardenstudios.com/]. Her recent books include ''Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief'' by Doris Payne with Zelda Lockhart (2019), and ''[http://The%20Soul%20of%20the%20Full-Length%20Manuscript:%20Turning%20Life’s%20Wounds%20into%20the%20Gift%20of%20Literary%20Fiction,%20Memoir,%20or%20Poetry https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Full-Length-Manuscript-Turning-Literary/dp/0978910265]'' (2017). She is the author of three novels: ''Fifth Born'' (2003), ''[http://Cold%20Running%20Creek https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Running-Creek-Zelda-Lockhart/dp/0978910206/ref=sr_1_1?crid=81W2DY4E4FAU&keywords=cold+running+creek&qid=1683822245&s=books&sprefix=cold+running+creek%2Cstripbooks%2C96&sr=1-1]'' (2006), and ''[http://Fifth%20Born%20II:%20The%20Hundredth%20Turtle https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Born-II-Hundredth-Turtle/dp/0978910249]'' (2010). Her first novel was published to critical acclaim and was a finalist for an award—for a debut novel—from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Foundation. Her novels emphasize the struggles, sexual trauma, and triumphs of African and Native American women historically and contemporarily. Her research focuses on inquiries into intergenerational healing and the ways creating personal experience-based literature while consuming personal experience-based literature has the potential to be emotionally, psychologically, and socially transformative for individuals. Areas of interest are Black women and girls, Native populations, people of color, LGBT individuals and financially disenfranchised people. In her position as director of LaVenson Press and Her Story Garden Studios, Lockhart seeks to create a space where women can "self-define through writing and publishing." She is currently Associate Professor of Creative Writing and African American Literature at North Carolina Central University

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