Sunday, April 11, 2021 - Angela Lockhart-Aronoff (via Zoom)

Angela Lockhart-Aronoff began writing at the age of eight. As her artistic interests grew, she earned a bachelor’s degree in theatre from Florida State University and later a master’s in educational theatre from New York University.

She is the recipient of a Ford Foundation summer teaching fellowship at Wesleyan University, where she developed an interest in writing children’s literature, and has directed youth theatre productions at the Boys and Girls Club and the AMAS Repertory / Eubie Blake Youth Theatre in Harlem. Together with her late husband Kenneth Aronoff, she founded the Brooklyn-based nonprofit Living Lessons, an educational theatre company that toured the tri-state area. After Ken passed on, Angela turned her writing interest toward poetry. Her work has been published in several anthologies and in the chapbook, What Is It You Think You See? She has also directed performance art for the Brooklyn Women’s Chorus and the World Fellowship Center in New Hampshire; and used her training from the NY Writers Coalition to lead creative writing workshops in shelters as well as at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) and the Weeksville Heritage Center. Currently, Angela has returned to her interest in writing poetic books for children of color.