Linda Louise Bierds is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing

Creative writing

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 at the University of Washington

University of Washington

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, where she also received her B.A. in 1969.

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

The New Yorker

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. Her poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies. She lives on Bainbridge Island

Bainbridge Island, Washington

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Awards

She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

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, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Artist Trust Foundation of Washington and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Guggenheim Fellowship

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In 1998, she was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship "genius" grant.

Works

• "Meriwether and the Magpie", Blackbird

• Beasts: three short stories, University of Washington., 1971
• Snaring the flightless birds : the legends of Maui Allegany Mountain Press, 1982, ISBN 9780091588137
• Off the Aleutian chain : poetry, L'Epervier Press, 1985, ISBN 9780934332446
• Flights of the harvest-mare, Ahsahta Press, 1985, ISBN 9780916272272
• The stillness, the dancing : poems, H. Holt, 1988, ISBN 9780805007664
• Heart and perimeter : poems H. Holt, 1991, ISBN 9780805017656
• The ghost trio : poems H. Holt, 1994, ISBN 9780805034868
• The profile makers : poems Henry Holt, 1997, ISBN 9780805055368
• The seconds : poems G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001, ISBN 9780399147869
• There : Suzzallo Library, University of Washington, November 2002 (2002)
• First hand : poems, Penguin Group, 2005, ISBN 9780399152610

Anthologies

• "Vespertilio", The extraordinary tide: new poetry by American women, Editors Susan Aizenberg, Erin Belieu, Jeremy Countryman, Columbia University Press, 2001, ISBN 9780231119634
• "Burning the Fields", Poets of the new century, Editors Roger Weingarten, Richard Higgerson, David R. Godine Publisher, 2003, ISBN 9781567921786
• American alphabets: 25 contemporary poets, Editor David Walker, Oberlin College Press, 2006, ISBN 9780932440280

External links

• "Lyric and Narrative", The Atlantic, Sarah Cohen
• "On Linda Bierds" Octopus Magazine, Jeff Encke