Wayfinding

She is a teacher, poet and novelist who lives in Corvallis, Oregon with her husband, Court in a mini-museum of her miniature collections of dollhouses, angels, winged ones, Swedish folk art, season decorations. She is retired from teaching creative writing, children’s literature, and Write Your Life Story classes at Linn-Benton Community College. She gives poetry workshops and readings, sponsors youth writing contests and judges all ages of poetry. Linda was an editor at Calyx Books for 32 years and LBCC’s award-winning The Eloquent Umbrella magazine instructor. Former president and board member of the Oregon Poetry Association, current president of Portland PEN women, she belongs to several writing groups: such as Marys Peak Poets, Poetic License, Children’s Book Writers, Poetry Readers; Writing the Wrongs to Rights Huddle part of Women’s March, plays competitive and cooperative Scrabble. She’s a great fan of dance, gymnastics, plays, art, physics and metaphysics.