Linda is a poet, scholar, essay-writer, willing co-creator/collaborator and a student of ecospheric care. 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. 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 and collaborating with visual artists to create works that inspire connections across deep time and space with plants native to the endangered Palouse Prairie ecosystem.
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.
News & Events
April 23, 2026, 4-5 PM. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman WA
Poems and Visual Arts of the Plant Companion Field Guide: a celebration of the work of several artists who played a role in creating Plant Companion Field Guide: A New(Old) Way to Know the Plants of the Palouse. Linda’s poems and essayettes for five Indigenous Palouse Prairie plants are presented alongside botanical portraits by Cori Dantini. Book design by Krista Brand. Shalla Newman’s printed poetry broadsides will also be exhibited. Emphasizing companionship between humans and plants throughout time and place, Plant Companion asks: How can getting to know plants take part in transforming relationships to the land we inhabit, the traditional homelands of the Nimíipuu and Pelúuc, and to each other? Can we together remember and image future lineages of earth-honoring practices of interspecies kinship, reciprocity, and care?
Plant Companion Field Guide is funded by the 2025–26 David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship and Artist Trust.
April 28, 2026, 5:30-6:30 PM. Neill Public Library, Pullman WA
David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities Faculty Lecture Series
Can we together remember and imagine our lineages of earth-honoring practices of interspecies kinship and an ethics of care? What role can art play in cultivating knowledge of our culturally and ecologically entangled histories and futures? How can getting to know plants take part in transforming relationships to the land we inhabit, the traditional homelands of the Nimíipuu and Pelúuc, and to each other? Plant CompanionField Guide: A New(Old) Way to Know the Plants of the Palouse:because thinking along with plants that are indigenous to the Palouse Prairie is a good place to start.
November 2025
“Our Many Small Faces” appears in If/Then, a collaboration and a chapbook published by JackPine Press.
October 2025
Interview about the verdant, with Paul Nelson of the Cascadia Poetics Lab on ecopoetics, geopoetics, Lorine Niedecker and Joanne Kyger, interspecies and political community, building a world for your poems to live in/building ecologically habitable places through poems, and more.