Writings and Books
Santa Fe, New Mexico
"At dusk, I shut off the air conditioning and crank open the windows. Here, a mile from the Cedar River, I hear barred owls call to each other, coyotes yip their conquests, and raccoons rustle in the trees.
The air is close, the moon shy of entire on this summer solstice. I go to bed early, exhausted from doing yard work during the strongest sun of the day. I'm alone with the animals, which I enjoy, while my thirteen year old daughter, Elizabeth, takes a weeklong school trip. Nineteen months have passed since my son, Raymond, and my husband, Jon, died. Five months after that, a truck hit and killed Jumpin' Jack Flash, one of my favorite dogs.
Lately I've heard about thin places. The Celts believe that areas exist within a natural landscape where a living being can join with the other side, with those who have gone before us..."
~ Illumined, in Mountain Lion Rises: A Memoir of Healing
Jacinta Hart Kehoe began writing as a child by recording her brother's pony's journal and writing short stories. She also drew and painted prolifically. As a young adult, writing non-fiction became her primary course of creativity. She has a Master of Arts degree 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, among other organizations--all in which editing and writing were her main focus. She has published in various outlets on numerous topics. 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.
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Hart Kehoe paints, writes, gardens and loves to hike. 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, Hart, and Sol--a dog and two cats.
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