Linda Bierds

Linda Louise Bierds (born 1945 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 (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.

Awards
She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Artist Trust Foundation of Washington and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 1998, she was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship "genius" grant.

Publications

 * 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

Anthologized

 * "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