Linda Bierds
Linda Louise Bierds is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at the University of Washington, where she also received her B.A. in 1969.
Her books include Flights of the Harvest Mare; The Stillness, the Dancing; Heart and Perimeter; and The Ghost Trio.
Since 1984, her work has appeared regularly in The New Yorker. Her poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets and many other anthologies. She lives on Bainbridge Island.Awards
She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, Artist Trust and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
In 1998, she was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship "genius" grant. 2011, she received an honorary degree in Doctor of Letters from Oglethorpe University.Collections
- Snaring the flightless birds : the legends of Maui Allegany Mountain Press, 1982,
- Off the Aleutian chain : poetry, L'Epervier Press, 1985,
- Flights of the harvest-mare, Ahsahta Press, 1985,
- The stillness, the dancing : poems, H. Holt, 1988,
- Heart and perimeter : poems H. Holt, 1991,
- The ghost trio : poems H. Holt, 1994,
- The profile makers : poems Henry Holt, 1997,
- The seconds : poems G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001,
- There : Suzzallo Library, University of Washington, November 2002
- , Penguin Group, 2005,
