Prairie Lights

Former Iowa Citian Jacinta Hart Kehoe will read from her memoir, Mountain Lion Rises. “Mountain Lion Rises an intense account of the redemptive nature of the world around us—if we have the patience and compassion to comprehend it. Jacinta Hart Kehoe has this patience and compassion and is able to translate it to the page gracefully in a difficult, honest, and hopeful story that is well worth the read.” —BK Loren

Jacinta Hart Kehoe has a Master’s in English from Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury, Vermont, and has worked as a high school English and drama teacher, an editor, a waitress, a secretary, a dog trainer, a seamstress, a community organizer, and as a specialist for Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parents Association. She began avidly writing creative non-fiction essays about healing after she suffered multiple injuries in a semi-trailer truck/auto accident when her first husband and son were killed. For 19 years, she has needed to periodically attend physical therapy sessions due to vertigo and the need to maintain her equilibrium, results of the accident.Hart Kehoe gardens, paints, writes and loves to hike. She has published in various outlets on numerous topics. In 2017, Hart Kehoe and her husband, Phillip-the love of her life-moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they met and adopted special friends Yuka, and Hart and Sol-a dog and two cats.