Linda is a poet, scholar, essay-writer, willing co-creator/collaborator and a student of ecospheric care. Her work is informed by philosophies and practices of interspecies kinship and ecocultural of belonging, with particular attention to the complexities presented by fragmentation of land and human attention to the more-than-human. 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 engages with students and community through EcoArts on the Palouse. She is currently at work exploring lineages of thought in sacred ecology and 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.
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December 7, 2026: Linda’s Plant Companion Field Guide: Five Plants of the Palouse will be the subject of her keynote presentation at the Palouse Prairie Foundation’s Annual Meeting. 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?