A publication of North Carolina State University, Obsidian is a literary journal committed to publishing scholarly articles, fiction, poetry, and drama centered on the literatures of Africa and her Diaspora.

Issue 8.1 features an excerpt of an interview with Zelda Lockhart, author of Fifth Born and Cold Running Creek. The full interview, " Zelda Lockhart: A Conversation with Sheila Smith McKoy," may be found on Obsidian's Features page:  http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/obsidian/Features.htm