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.