Linda Weber

Linda Weber is a writer of historical fiction, memoir, and personal essays. She is a graduate of the University of Oregon with degrees in Speech: Rhetoric and Public Address as well as Journalism, with an Oregon Teaching Certification. She completed her Master of Public Administration work at Portland State University. Linda has owned a retail custom clothing business, a bed and breakfast inn, and a direct sales and marketing business where she was also a corporate trainer. She was named...See more

Linda Weber is a writer of historical fiction, memoir, and personal essays. She is a graduate of the University of Oregon with degrees in Speech: Rhetoric and Public Address as well as Journalism, with an Oregon Teaching Certification. She completed her Master of Public Administration work at Portland State University. Linda has owned a retail custom clothing business, a bed and breakfast inn, and a direct sales and marketing business where she was also a corporate trainer. She was named Advocate of the Year for Women in Business by the Portland Oregon office of the Small Business Administration and chaired a regional "Women in Business" conference attended by over 1,000 women and men from the Western Region of the SBA. She is an accomplished public speaker and community activist who has run for state-wide political office and been active in promoting causes for women's equality and advancement in business. She served as President of The Henderson Writers Group, Las Vegas, and facilitates Sisters Writes. She is a member of the Historical Novel Writers Society of North America, Women Writing the West, Sin City Writers Group and Sisters Writes, a read and critique group. Linda's essays and stories have won first-place writing awards and been published in anthologies and journals. Linda has two children, one stepchild, six grandchildren, two step-grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. She lives in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Sisters, Oregon with her husband, Dennis, his comfort animal, Jilly the dog, and Houdini the cat. She loves to travel and has visited or lived in over thirty countries. See less