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.

Linda Bierds
Born	Linda Louise Bierds 1945 (age 78–79) Delaware
Occupation	Poet College professor
Language	English
Alma mater	University of Washington
Notable awards	NEA Literature Fellowship 1988 Guggenheim Fellowship 1995 MacArthur Fellowship 1998

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 in 1988, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, Artist Trust and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1995. In 1998, she was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship "genius" grant. She received an honorary degree in Doctor of Letters from Oglethorpe University in 2011.

Bibliography

Collections

• Beasts : Three Short Stories University of Washington, 1971
• Snaring the flightless birds : the legends of Maui Allegany Mountain Press, 1982, ISBN 978-0-09-158813-7
• Off the Aleutian chain : poetry, L'Epervier Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-934332-44-6
• Flights of the harvest-mare, Ahsahta Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-916272-27-2
• The stillness, the dancing : poems, H. Holt, 1988, ISBN 978-0-8050-0766-4
• Heart and perimeter : poems H. Holt, 1991, ISBN 978-0-8050-1765-6
• The ghost trio : poems H. Holt, 1994, ISBN 9780805034868
• The profile makers : poems Henry Holt, 1997, ISBN 978-0-8050-5536-8
• 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 978-0-399-15261-0
• Flight: New and Selected Poems Penguin, 2008
• Roget's Illusion : poems G. P. Putnams's Sons, 2014
• The Hardy Tree : poems Copper Canyon Press, 2019

List of poems

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
The weathervanes	1996	"The weathervanes". The Atlantic Monthly. 278 (2): 74. August 1996.
Meriwether and the magpie	2005	"Meriwether and the magpie". Blackbird. 4 (2). Fall 2005.
Vespertilio			Susan Aizenberg; Erin Belieu; Jeremy Countryman, eds. (2001). The extraordinary tide : new poetry by American women. New York: Columbia UP.
Burning the fields			Roger Weingarten; Richard Higgerson, eds. (2003). Poets of the new century : an anthology (2nd ed.). Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine. pp. 15–17.
The lacemaker's condenser			Roger Weingarten; Richard Higgerson, eds. (2003). Poets of the new century : an anthology (2nd ed.). Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine. pp. 17–18.
The suicide of Clover Adams: 1885			Roger Weingarten; Richard Higgerson, eds. (2003). Poets of the new century : an anthology (2nd ed.). Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine. pp. 18–19.
On reflection : Michael Faraday	2013	"On reflection : Michael Faraday". The Atlantic. 311 (5): 65. June 2013.

External links

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