Books on the Bed

Zelda Lockhart

Dr. ZELDA LOCKHART 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.  To learn more about Zelda: zeldalockhart.com Interview location: Durham, NC Zelda’s Books on the Bed: The Mimosa Tree by Vera and Bill Cleaver The Black Notebooks by Toi Derricote Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison Beloved by Toni Morrison Trinity by Zelda Lockhart Matt’s gifts for Zelda:  The Last Children of Mill Creek by Vivian Gibson Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine   Episode timeline: 0:00-4:07 — Intro 4:08-9:08 — Matt presents gifts to Zelda 9:09-14:32 — Eliza Edens song "Garden of Sound" and ecology metaphor 14:33-1:49:35 — Zelda's Books on the Bed

Remica Bingham-Risher

Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is an alumna of Old Dominion University and Bennington College. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Among other journals, her work has been published in the New York Times, the Writer’s Chronicle, New Letters, Callaloo and Essence. She is the author of Conversion (Lotus, 2006) winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan, 2013) shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Award and Starlight & Error (Diode, 2017) winner of the Diode Editions Book Award. Her first book of prose, Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books and Questions that Grew Me Up, was published by Beacon Press in 2022. Her next book of poems, Room Swept Home, was published by Wesleyan in February 2024. She is currently the Director of Quality Enhancement Plan Initiatives at Old Dominion University and resides in Norfolk, VA with her husband and children. Learn more about Remica: remicabinghamrisher.com Interview location: Norfolk, VA   Remica’s Books on the Bed: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin Home by Toni Morrison The Book of Light by Lucille Clifton Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Fast Animal by Tim Seibles Matt’s gifts for Remica: To ‘Joy My Freedom by Tera Hunter Somerset Homecoming by Dorothy Spruill Redford   Episode timeline: 0:00-3:33 — Intro 3:34-28:17 — Remica's family history, new book Room Swept Home, reading poems 28:18-42:10  — Matt presents gifts to Remica 42:11-1:38:59 — Remica's Books on the Bed  

Books on the Bed Trailer

Welcome to Books on the Bed!  Logo design by Nathaniel Roy - nathanielroy.com Theme music: Eliza Edens - "Ramble" (Instrumental) from Time Away From Time (2020) More about Eliza: eliza-edens.com