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Writing Connects Us & Heals Generational Wounds

Join Dr. Lockhart online for a community engagement fundraiser (yes still fundraising) where she will share all the beauty of the experience of going to Zambia with these story-healing ways and bring home the story-healing she experienced there. Enjoy the video and lively cross pollination through this presentation and interactive that will dissolve barriers. 

Zelda Went to Zambia 

Homecoming Presentation & Fundraiser

Sunday, Oct. 5th 1pm EDT 

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Dr. ZELDA LOCKHART is a current Fulbright Specialist engaging in cross-cultural story projects for generational healing in the U.S. and abroad. She 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. She is a dynamic speaker and educator who travels the US and abroad utilizing story and nature to inspire individuals to heal, ​​maintain healthy relationships, lead effectively, and work productively and gracefully in community. 

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Durham Artist Archive

"Writing as Medicine" Season 3 of the Durham Artist Archive is BACK featuring accomplished author, poet, and Fulbright Specialist Dr.Zelda Lockhart in conversation with Alyssa Cuffie Onuoha. 

You can find it on Substack, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts OR Click Here to Listen

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Engaging in Today's Difficult Conversations

In today’s polarized political climate, it’s easy to avoid or shy away from conversations with people whose views don’t align with our own. Yet, these difficult conversations are more important than ever. At Authors Unbound, we believe that the power of storytelling can help us engage with perspectives that challenge our assumptions, foster empathy, and create meaningful dialogue. Here's what Dr. Lockhart has to offer for our healing stories and connections. 


WKIM Media Network

Marsha Jews interviews Zelda Lockhart about Trinity and the healing necessary in America to cure the generational violence of racism.

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WUNC Radio Due South

Leoneda Inge sits down with Lockhart to learn more about her career and her approach to writing decades-spanning history in fiction.

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IndyWeek

Shelbi Polk interviews Zelda Lockhart about her expressive writing workshops and generational healing in her novel Trinity. 

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Hurston/Wright's Black Writer's Studio

Khadijah Ali-Coleman interviews Zelda Lockhart about her writing practice and the generational healing and social transformation in her teaching and her novels.

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Charis Books & More

Zelda Lockhart in conversation with Opal Moore about her novel Trinity. 

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Books on the Bed Podcast

Matt Sawyer interviews Zelda Lockhart about her novels and the novels that have influenced her career. 

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Author Photos by Leticia Clementina @lettycyousmile

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