Praise for Sleepwalker, poetry chapbook:
"Sleepwalker is a moving poetic tribute to Linda Sienkiewicz’s late son, Derek. Resolute, lyrical, and unflinching, these poems are informed by profound loss even as they pulse with a mother’s capacious love. A brilliant and devastating account of parenthood as the junction where both our greatest gifts and our greatest fears sometimes converge."
~Kelly Fordon, author of Goodbye Toothless House
"In Sleepwalker, Linda Sienkiewicz writes with tenderness, clarity, and breathtaking vulnerability about her eldest son, who took his own life...I admire these poems deeply. I wish they did not have to be written."
~Kathleen McGookey, author of Instructions for My Imposter
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Praise for Gordy and the Ghost Crab, children's picture book:
“An awesome story teaching about crabs and the health of our beaches. Gordy learns fast about the importance of preserving wildlife in its natural habitats. I highly recommend it for the young reader.”
~Midwest Book Review
“Gordy and the Ghost Crab invites readers to share a beach day adventure like no other. Blending sea life curiosity with an act of compassion, this story is sure to become a favorite for youth of all ages, from the read-to-me crowd on up."
~Jean Alicia Elster, award-winning author of the Joe Joe in the City series, Who's Jim Hines? and The Colored Car.
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Praise for In the Context of Love, contemporary adult fiction:
“With tenderness, but without blinking, Linda K. Sienkiewicz turns her eye on the predator-prey savannah of the young and still somehow hopeful.”
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of the #1 NY Times Bestseller, Deep End of the Ocean
“Linda K. Sienkiewicz’s powerful and richly detailed debut novel is at once a love story, a cautionary tale, and an inspirational journey. In the Context of Love should be required reading for all wayward teenage girls—and their mothers, too.”
~ Bonnie Jo Campbell, award winning author of The Waters
“Linda Sienkiewicz has written a love letter to the wonder and imperfection of everyday life.”
~ Marcy Dermansky, author of the critically acclaimed novel, Hurricane Girl
About Linda
Linda K Sienkiewicz is the author of the novel In the Context of Love, the forthcoming novel Love and Other Incurable Ailments, picture book Gordy and the Ghost Crab and 5 poetry chapbooks. She attributes her creative drive to her artistic mother who read to her, and her creative father who gave her free rein in his workshop. She holds an MFA from University of Southern Maine.