Linda K. Sienkiewicz, Author

How to Find Calm after Trauma

December 4, 2023 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Cheri's recovery process My friend and fellow poet has been working on acute anxiety and trauma recovery by painting colorful watercolor birds and boldly posting her work on Facebook. The images … Continue reading >>

Soul to Soul: Faye Rapoport DesPres

November 20, 2023 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

It’s all about connections: Faye Rapoport DesPres is a multi-genre writer whom I’ve long admired. We met in the early 2000s through the same small press that published her memoir, Message from a … Continue reading >>

The Little Pill and Deanna’s Big Story to Tell

November 13, 2023 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

You know the TV commercial... And it probably annoys the heck out of you because after you hear it, the tune plays in your head on endless repeat. I bet you could sing it in your sleep. That's the … Continue reading >>

I Came, I Sewed, I Pillaged: Winning Ocracoke’s Pirate Costume Contest

November 9, 2023 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Apparently, I pirate better than people half my age: Well, I don't mean to brag or anything, but guess who won Most Authentic Adult Female Costume at the Blackbeard's Pirate Jamboree on Ocracoke … Continue reading >>

What, Why, How: Andrew Collard

November 6, 2023 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: I write poetry! My first book of poems, Sprawl, won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and was recently published by Ohio University Press. Sprawl is about life in the metropolis of southeast … Continue reading >>

Love at 350° A delicious romance-comedy

October 30, 2023 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Welcome fellow Detroit author, Lisa Peers, to my blog: Lisa Peers and I met many years ago at a Detroit Working Writers Conference. I remember her sitting at the table in the conference room with … Continue reading >>

Linda K Sienkiewicz

Writing life, line by line