Lenore Hart, a fifth-generation Floridian, holds a BA from the University of Central Florida, an MSLS from Florida State, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Old Dominion University. She has been a grant recipient and writer in residence for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Florida Fine Arts Council, and a Visiting Writer at Flagler College in St. Augustine. She is also a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts at Sweetbriar College, and was writer in residence at The New College of Florida in Sarasota in 2005. She is currently the Visiting Writer at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and also teaches in the graduate writing program at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.