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Linda bierds at bainbridge island museum of art april17 2014
Linda Louise Bierds (born 1945 in Delaware) 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.
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- Linda bierds at bainbridge island museum of art april17 2014
- Guest Writers Series Linda Bierds
- Awards
- References

Her books include Flights of the Harvest Mare; The Stillness, the Dancing; Heart and Perimeter; and The Ghost Trio (Henry Holt 1994). Since 1984, her work has appeared regularly in The New Yorker. Her poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies. She lives on Bainbridge Island.

Guest Writers Series: Linda Bierds
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.




