Linda Russo

Linda Russo is the author of two books of poetry, most recently PARTICIPANT (Lost Roads Publisher, 2016) and MEANING TO GO TO THE ORIGIN IN SOME WAY (Shearsman, 2015). A collection of lyric essays, TO THINK OF HER WRITING AWASH IN LIGHT (Subito Press, 2016), selected by John D'Agata as the winner of Subito Press' inaugural lyric essay/creative nonfiction prize, is forthcoming. Her poems have appeared in the anthology Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia , and in magazines such as Interim, Journal...See more

Linda Russo is the author of two books of poetry, most recently PARTICIPANT (Lost Roads Publisher, 2016) and MEANING TO GO TO THE ORIGIN IN SOME WAY (Shearsman, 2015). A collection of lyric essays, TO THINK OF HER WRITING AWASH IN LIGHT (Subito Press, 2016), selected by John D'Agata as the winner of Subito Press' inaugural lyric essay/creative nonfiction prize, is forthcoming. Her poems have appeared in the anthology Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia , and in magazines such as Interim, Journal of Poetics Research, Omniverse , and elsewhere. Her scholarly essays have appeared in Among Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Poetry (University of Iowa Press) and other edited collections, and as the preface of Joanne Kyger's ABOUT NOW: COLLECTED POEMS (National Poetry Foundation, 2007).(National Poetry Foundation). She lives in the Columbia River Watershed, teaches at Washington State University, and undertakes fieldworks and inquiries, documenting these at inhabitorypoetics.blogspot.com. See less