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.
[1] Her books include Flights of the Harvest-Mare; The Stillness, the Dancing; Heart and Perimeter; and The Ghost Trio (1994).
Her poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies.
[2] She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1988,[3] the Ingram Merrill Foundation, Artist Trust and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1995.
[5] She received an honorary degree in Doctor of Letters from Oglethorpe University in 2011.