Zelda Lockhart, PhD

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Expressive Arts Therapies

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Expressive Arts Therapies

About Dr. Zelda Lockhart

I am a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator. I use memoir and poetry writing along with art and nature to help folks heal, regain a sense of self-agency, and seek and maintain healthy relationships. My work is particularly helpful for people living with the effects of long-term trauma, which includes adults living with childhood trauma and people living with the impact of multigenerational trauma.

More personally: I was a little girl who wanted nothing more than to be outside playing in the dirt and filling my pockets with the magical things I discovered. Being told to be quiet and keep the family secrets was like someone telling water to stay behind a wall. Through stories I navigate and discover new paths for myself, and by reading and listening to your stories I am inspired to keep planting my truths and discovering what sorts of fruit they bear. As a queer, Black woman, mother, grandmother, author, I am passionate about fostering freedom of expression for other folks in whatever way that expression springs forth in my workshops, through writing, song, dance, images...

In my current academic position, I am Endowed Associate Professor of Creative Writing & African American Literature at North Carolina Central University. My research and facilitation focusses on utilizing the food, medicine, and kinship of story and nature as ways for people to self-define and authenticate their relationships. I do this work with individuals one-on-one, in workshops, in academic settings, and as a tool for community and organizational development.

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ZELDA LOCKHART is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and African American Literature and Distinguished Endowed Fellow in the Language & Literature Department at North Carolina Central University. She 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. Her latest books include Forthcoming HarperCollins 2023 release Trinity (a novel) by Zelda Lockhart, HarperCollins 2021 release Mama Bear: One Black Mother’s Fight for Her Child’s Life and Her Own (by Shirley Smith with Zelda Lockhart), Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief( by Doris Payne with Zelda Lockhart), and The Soul of the Full-Length Manuscript which takes readers on the emotional, psychological and spiritual journey of utilizing personal stories to transform their lives while completing a work of fiction, memoir or poetry. Lockhart is author of novels Fifth Born, 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 Awardee, and Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle, 2011 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her fiction, poetry, and essays appear in several anthologies as well as in periodicals like Chautauqua, Obsidian II, and USAToday.com.

Lockhart is Director at Her Story Garden Studios: Inspiring Black Women to Self-Define, Heal, and Liberate Through Our Stories & Nature.

She continues her work as a writer and speaker, facilitating workshops across the US on issues specific to the human struggle

and on ways that connecting through story and nature is good for what ails us.

She welcomes visits to her websites:

www.ZeldaLockhart.com

www.HerStoryGardenStudios.com

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About Dr. Zelda Lockhart

Podcast: Recollect

I'm a REACE. A WHAT? I'm About Expressive Arts Therapies

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About Dr. Zelda Lockhart