A graduate of Norfolk State University, and Old Dominion University, Zelda Lockhart is author of Fifth Born, published by Atria Books/Simon & Schuster Aug. 2002. The novel was a Barnes & Noble Discovery selection, and recently won a finalist award for debut fiction from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Foundation. Lockhart is also the author of The Evolution, a serial novella, currently appearing in the archives of USAToday.com's Open Book series. Lockhart has just finished a second novel, Cold Running Creek, which will be published in November 2006 by LaVenson Press. Her other works of fiction, poetry and essays have been anthologized and appear in journals and magazines with national distributions. She currently resides in Hillsborough, North Carolina with her two children.

Zelda's Publications

• "WITHOUT A WORD," WHEN I WAS A LOSER: an anthology. Free Press, Simon & Schuster, March 2007.
  
• "TRACKING LOVE," THE HONEYMOON'S OVER: an anthology. Warner Books, December 2006.
  
• COLD RUNNING CREEK, LaVenson Press, publication, November 2006.
  
• THE EVOLUTION, USAToday.com Open Book Series, March-April 2003.
  
• FIFTH BORN, Simon & Schuster, publication Aug. 2002
  
• HIS HANDS, HIS TOOLS, HIS SEX, HIS DRESS, (anthology) Alice Street/Haworth, Binghamton, NY story "Mulberry Tree", pub. Sp. 2001.
  
• SOJOURNER, May 1997, Aug. 1997, Apr. 1998, June 1998, Dec. 1997, March 2002.
  
• WORD WRIGHT MAGAZINE, Sp/Sum 1997 & Sum 1996.
  
• PRESENT TENSE, Anthology of Women’s Writing 1997, CALYX, Vol. 16, No. 3 1997.