Zelda Lockhart is currently Alumni Endowed Chair for the Department of Language and Literature at North Carolina Central University teaching creative writing, and is director at LaVenson Press Studios: Inspiring Women to Self-Define through Writing & Publishing. She is pursuing a PhD in Expressive Art Therapies, holds an MA in literature, and a certificate in writing, directing, and editing film from the NY Film Academy. She lectures across the US on issues specific to the human struggle and on ways that consuming and creating literature are good for what ails us. She welcomes visits to her websites: www.ZeldaLockhart.com www.LaVensonPressStudios.com