Zelda Lockhart, visiting professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, will read at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 25, in Kenan Lecture Hall (Kenan 1111) on the UNCW campus.

Lockhart's debut novel, Fifth Born (Atria, 2002), was a Barnes & Noble Discovery selection and a finalist for debut fiction from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Foundation. Her second novel, Cold Running Creek (LaVenson, 2006), was the winner of the 2008 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Fiction Award. She is currently working on her third novel and teaching a workshop in fiction at UNCW.

The public is invited to attend this free event. A reception will follow, along with a book signing sponsored by Pomegranate Books. Recent praise for Cold Running Creek:

"From the antebellum history, in Mississippi, Zelda Lockhart takes her pen to guide her readers through a seldom-explored world of black slaves of Indian masters in the Deep South."

—Angela Y. Walton-Raji, author of Black Indian Genealogy

"Poignant, haunting, and invested with a riveting lyrical style . . . Cold Running Creek brings the twin horrors of removal and slavery in close orbit with one another. The result is devastating."

—Sharon P. Holland and Tiya Miles, co-editors of Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country

For further information on programs and events, please contact the Department of Creative Writing at 910.962.7063 or visit www.uncw.edu/writers.