Linda is a poet, scholar, essay-writer, willing co-creator/collaborator and a student of ecospheric care. Through the lenses of ecofeminism, geopoetics and inspired by Indigenous practices of interspecies kinship, her works explore relationality with the more-than-human world alongside the complexities presented by fragmentation of land and human attention to place. Their most recent book, the verdant, was awarded the Halcyon Award for Poetry from Middle Creek Publishing. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous places, including Ecotone, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly and Plumwood Mountain: An Australian and International Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics and in scholarly collections: Poet in Place and Time: Critical Essays on Joanne Kyger (2024), The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics (2023), and Momentous Inconclusions: New Essays on Larry Eigner (2021). She lives on Nimíipuu and Pelúuc homelands in the Inland Northwestern US, teaches at Washington State University, and enjoys engaging with students and community through EcoArts on the Palouse. She is currently at work exploring writing as herbal praxis.
Linda's most recent book elucidates an imaginative terrain beyond human individualism. It follows "the verdant," a being who is “charged to comprehend” and escapes into a forgiving and spacious temporality to find vibrancy, companionship, and counsel among numerous and numinous beings.
Through creative collaborations & explorations, Linda fosters an ethic of ecospheric care. Since 2017, she has directed EcoArts on the Palouse, inviting her students, local community, and poets and artists to take part in shaping this ongoing visual and literary arts archive of exploratory encounters across space and time. Eleven creative works, including the botanical signage of the Plant Poems Project, highlight our entanglement with the more-than-human world at the edges of settlement on the Palouse where she has lived since 2008.
Events
April 13, 2025, 1 p.m.
Reading at Studio 7, Eugene OR, with Tom Titus and Lori Anderson MosemanApril 27, 2025, 4 p.m.
Reading at Xit the Bear readings in the Press Room @ Oxford Street, Somerville MA, with Brenda IijimaMay 29, 2025, 7 p.m.
Reading for Margin Shift at the Hugo House, Seattle WA, with Samar Abulhassan, Ally Ang, and Sarah Mangold