Short Bio:

Linda K. Sienkiewicz is the author of the multi-finalist award-winning novel In the Context of Love, forthcoming novel Love and Other Incurable Ailments, five poetry chapbooks and a children’s picture book. Among her awards are a poetry chapbook and a Pushcart Prize Nomination. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and serves as Honorary Director of Detroit Working Writers.

Long bio:

Linda K. Sienkiewicz has published short stories, poems, essays and art in numerous anthologies and literary journals, such as Prairie Schooner, Permafrost, Clackamas Literary Review, Paterson Review, New Ohio Review, The MacGufffin, and the anthology Idol Talk: Women Writers on the Teenage Infatuations that Changed Their Lives. Linda’s debut novel, In the Context of Love, won multiple finalist awards, including the Eric Hoffer Award and the Sarton Women’s Fiction Award. Her writing honors include a Pushcart Prize nomination and a poetry chapbook award. She has five poetry chapbooks and children’s picture book, Gordy and the Ghost Crab, which she wrote and illustrated. Her second novel, Love and Other Incurable Ailments, will be released by Regal House Publishing in October 2026. Linda holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She serves as honorary director of Detroit Working Writers, and a member of Detroit Writers Guild, Poetry Society of Michigan, Authors Guild, and Women’s Fiction Writers Association. She lives in Michigan and volunteers for Neighborhood House, a local nonprofit.

Children’s Author Bio:

Linda K. Sienkiewicz is a fiction writer, poet and artist who fell in love with the Outer Banks of North Carolina. She enjoys spending time on its beaches as often as possible. When Linda can’t be there, she’s home in Michigan, dreaming of having her toes in the sand.