Pitch Weed (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781519767950)

Garnette Lockhart is the alter-ego of a southern-born, Catholic-school-educated woman who was raised on the campus of an HBCU. The author's mother exposed her to Southern, Literary, Women's and Black History, and respected her creative gifts. Garnette is a Physician Assistant in Women's Health and has her Master's Degree in Library and Information Science with a specialiization in Archival Studies. She is a proud nerd who enjoys research almost as much as she enjoys her Frenchie/Boston Terrier. Garnette's work centers on themes of resistance to white supremacy, colorism, racial and gender stereotypes, black separatism, loss of racial, gender and spiritual identity during diaspora of 19th century, and infuses the pedigrees inferred by family trees with the sins of the fathers rather than the pride of the bloodline. Garnette Lockhart writes almost exclusively about outcasts, individualists, criminals and the morally corrupt. And she does so with her sense of humor intact and her tongue planted firmly in her cheek. She is a speaker of harsh truths who cloaks the stridence of such truths in satire.