About Linda

For most of my life, by day I was an uptight and proper academic – a publish or perish, left brain type. Now, you can find me on my homestead, growing food and medicine, and sharing my abundance with the people and critters dear to me. But whether a scientist or a farmer, when darkness falls and the house stills, I write stories, poems, and other lies.

I write what I know. And I write what I don’t know. My research in mental health and substance use disorders underpins much of my fiction. A nice bridge between the two sides of my brain. More and more, I write about the natural wonder of the world, and ruminate where we fit into this grand and glorious scheme, on my substack City Mouse Moves to the Country. 

My prose and poems have been published at Fractured Lit (2025 Anthology Prize), The Missouri Review (2021 Perkins Award), The Sun, Smokelong Quarterly, Penn Review, Citron Review, Monkeybicycle, Scissors and Spackle, MiCrow, Blue Five Notebook, The Poet’s Market 2013, Hoot, Camroc Press Review, Every Day Fiction, and Nanoism, among others. In 2015, I received my MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins. I am currently seeking representation for two of my novels, with a third in deep revision.