Zelda Lockhart

Zelda Lockhart holds a PhD in expressive art therapies, an MA in literature, and a certificate in writing, directing, and editing from the New York Film Academy. Lockhart is the author of Fifth Born, Cold Running Creek, ad Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle. Her fiction, poetry, and essays appear in several anthologies, as well as in periodicals such as Chautauqua and Obsidian II, and on USAToday.com. Lockhart is director at Her Story Garden Studios: Inspiring Black Women & Girls to Self-Define, Heal, and Liberate Through Our Stories & Nature. She continues her work as a writer and speaker, facilitating workshops across the US. She lives in North Carolina.