Dr. ZELDA LOCKHART holds a PhD in Expressive Art Therapies, an MA in Literature, and a certificate in writing, directing and editing from the NY Film Academy. Her work as an author and expressive arts consultant and educator centers on the power of story and nature to connect us across barriers and to heal our generations. She is winner of the Lambda Literary Foundation 2024 Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-career Novelist Prize. Her books include HarperCollins 2023 release Trinity (a novel) translated and released by HarperCollins France 2024 as Entends ma voix. Her other works include The Soul of the Full-Length Manuscript: Turning Life’s Wounds into the Gift of Literary Fiction, Memoir, or Poetry. Her other novels are Fifth Born which was a Barnes & Noble Discovery selection and a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award finalist, Cold Running Creek a Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Fiction award winner, and Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle a 2011 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Lockhart is Director at Her Story Garden Studios: Inspiring Black Women to Self-Define, Heal, and Liberate Through Our Stories & Nature.
To learn more about Zelda: zeldalockhart.com
Interview location: Durham, NC
Zelda’s Books on the Bed:
The Mimosa Tree by Vera and Bill Cleaver
The Black Notebooks by Toi Derricote
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Trinity by Zelda Lockhart
Matt’s gifts for Zelda:
The Last Children of Mill Creek by Vivian Gibson
Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Episode timeline:
0:00-4:07 — Intro
4:08-9:08 — Matt presents gifts to Zelda
9:09-14:32 — Eliza Edens song "Garden of Sound" and ecology metaphor
14:33-1:49:35 — Zelda's Books on the Bed
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