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.

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

Bibliography

Collections

• Bierds, Linda (1971). Beasts : three short stories. University of Washington. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
• 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
• Bierds, Linda (2008). Flight : new and selected poems. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)

List of poems

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
Meriwether and the magpie	2005	"Meriwether and the magpie". Blackbird. 4 (2). Fall 2005. Retrieved 2015-07-10. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
Vespertilio			The extraordinary tide : new poetry by American women. New York: Columbia UP. 2001. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help); Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
Burning the fields			Poets of the new century : an anthology. 2nd ed. Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, Publisher. 2003. pp. 15–17. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help); Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
The lacemaker's condenser			Poets of the new century : an anthology. 2nd ed. Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, Publisher. 2003. pp. 17–18. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help); Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
The suicide of Clover Adams: 1885			Poets of the new century : an anthology. 2nd ed. Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, Publisher. 2003. pp. 18–19. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help); Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
On reflection : Michael Faraday	2013	"On reflection : Michael Faraday". The Atlantic. 311 (5): 65. June 2013. Retrieved 2015-07-10. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)

External links

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