Linda is an award-winning author and the Poet Laureate Emeritus of Andover, MA. She has been honored with the Robert Frost Poetry Prize and her full-length collection, Rolling up the Sky, was named winner of the Homebound Publication Poetry Prize.
Her latest collection, To the Left of the Sun, is the winner of the International Book Award for Poetry. Her work has garnered numerous awards including the JuxtaProse Poetry Prize, first place in the Palm Beach Poetry Festival Competition, and finalist honors for the Princemere Poetry Prize, the Tucson Festival of the Book Literary Award, the New Millennium Award for Poetry, and the Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize.
Linda’s poems have been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and have appeared extensively in journals and anthologies including the Heartland Review, WSQ, Ink & Letters, and more.
Her debut chapbook, Catch and Release, was published by Finishing Line Press. She has presented at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and completed residencies at the Noepe Center for Literary Arts on Martha’s Vineyard and Prospect Street Writers House in Bennington, VT..
Her poetry collections include:
To the Left of the Sun
Rolling up the Sky
Catch and Release
Linda has a new poetry collection forthcoming in 2024: Shadows Set to Burn.
A graduate of Harvard University, Linda leads poetry workshops, gives readings, and promotes poetry on the North Shore of Boston where she lives with her husband and daughter.