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| Poetry
Credits Almost Touching (anthology) Buffalo Bones Clackamas Literary Review Concrete Wolf Controlled Burn Curious Rooms Driftwood Review Edge City Review freefall Free Focus Free Verse From East to West Heartlands Into the Teeth of the Wind Kumquat Merinque MacGuffin Main Street Rag Maverick Press Möbius Muddy River Poetry Review NowHere Nowhere Poetry Motel Permafrost Prairie Schooner Rattle Slipstream Spoon River Poetry Review Stray Dog Touchstone Review Wayne Literary Review White Pelican Short Stories Cleansheets (online) Moist (Taleisin Pub. Canada) Frenzy (60 Stories of Sudden Sex-- edited by Alison Tyler, pub. Cleis Press, Oct. 2008) Essays Detroit Free Press MetroParent Magazine Strut Magazine |
| Awards
1995 National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Honorable Mention 1997 Cranbrook Writers Guild Scholarship 1997 Heartlands, Chapbook Award, In the Curve of Space and Time 1996 Detroit Writer's Voice Poetry Contest, 2nd place, Anaconda 1999 Detroit Poetry in Motion, 2nd place, performance reading 2000 Pushcart Prize Nomination from Now Here Nowhere, Leaving Carolina 2000 Finalist, Sow's Ear Review Chapbook Contest 2000 Maryland State Lit & Poetry Society Chapbook Contest, Hon. Mention 2000 Cranbrook Retreat for Writers Scholarship 2001 Detroit Working Writers Spring Competition, Hon. Mention, poetry ms. 2001 Concrete Wolf Finalist, Chapbook Competition 2001 Redgreen Press, Finalist, Chapbook Contest 2001 Bone & Flesh, Finalist, Chapbook Contest 2002 Frith Press, Finalist, Chapbook Contest 2003 Cranbrook Writers Guild Scholarship 2003 Detroit Writers Voice, Hon. Mention Poetry, Russell Edson's Matter 2003 Main Street Rag, Finalist, Chapbook Contest 2005 Springfed Arts / Metro Detroit Writers, 2nd Place Poetry, Shimmer 2005 Metro Detroit Writers, 3rd Honorable Mention, poetry, Device 2006 Inkwell Poetry Contest, Finalist, What a Mother Hopes For , Judge: Billy Collins 2006 Metro Detroit Writers Prose Competition, 2nd place, excerpt from Swerve 2008 Black Lawrence Press, Semi-Finalist, Chapbook Contest Published Artwork CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women , Volume 23:2 , Summer/August 2006: two black and white prints inside The MacGuffin literary journal, Summer 2006 issue: cover and black and white print inside Tar Wolf forthcoming From East to West Summer 2008 |
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| "Drawing and writing-- I've always enjoyed both. I remember sitting on my front steps as a girl in Ohio and stapling together little books I made from squares of folded manila paper. Inside, I wrote and illustrated melodramatic stories about teenagers who fall madly in love and run away from home." Linda attended Cooper School of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, then worked in graphics arts for several years. While raising a family, she freelanced in art; designed, sewed and marketed a vintage denim clothing and handbag line; taught calligraphy; participated in Pet-a-Pet therapy with the family's chocolate Lab; founded an adult ADD support group; and continued to craft her writing. She also worked part-time as a picture framing specialist in galleries and frame shops for many years. |
| In addition to publishing poetry in literary magazines such as Prairie Schooner, Clackamas Literary Review, RATTLE, Permafrost, Spoon River Poetry Review, Slipstream and others, she won a poetry chapbook award in 1997 from Heartland, has 9 honorable mention / finalist awards in other chapbook contests, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her essays and short stories have appeared in STRUT, MetroParent, Cleansheets and others. Her artwork has been in exhibits in Ohio and Michigan, and published in CALYX - A Journal of Literature and Art by Women, The MacGuffin, and Tar Wolf Review. She is currently working on her MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in Fiction at Stonecoast. She also conducts a monthly Writing Circle program in journaling at Haven, a domestic violence shelter, as part of the Springfed Arts-Metro Detroit Writers Outreach programs. Linda is available for workshops in writing, creativity, altered books, for readings, and gives professional personal critiques. Please email for information and rates |
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