Linda Bierds
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. Her books include Flights of the Harvest-Mare; The Stillness, the Dancing; Heart and Perimeter; and The Ghost Trio (1994). Since 1984, her work has appeared regularly in The New Yorker.
Also recorded as Linda Louise Bierds
Linda Bierds
- Name
- Linda Bierds
- Birth Name
- Linda Louise Bierds
- Born
- 1945
- Birthplace
- Delaware
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- poet · writer · university teacher
- Education
- University of Washington
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship · MacArthur Fellows Program
- Languages
- English
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Biography
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Her poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies. She lives on Bainbridge Island.
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• Name — Linda Bierds • Birth Name — Linda Louise Bierds • Born — 1945 • Birthplace — Delaware • Language — English • Alma Mater — University of Washington
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Linda Bierds appears in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a writer and Anglicist (born 1945). The birth of Linda Bierds is recorded in 1945 in Delaware.
List of poems
List of poems
• |Year — Title — |First published — |Reprinted/collected • 1996 — "The Weathervanes" • 2005 — "Meriwether and the Magpie" • "Vespertilio" • "Burning the Fields" • "The Lacemaker's Condenser" • "The Suicide of Clover Adams: 1885" • 2013 — "On Reflection: Michael Faraday"
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Awards
She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1988, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, Artist Trust and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1995. In 1998, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She received an honorary degree in Doctor of Letters from Oglethorpe University in 2011.
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- 5.MacArthur Foundation. Linda Bierds.
- 6.Oglethorpe University. Honorary Degrees Awarded by Oglethorpe University.
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