Short Bio:
Linda K. Sienkiewicz has founded an adult ADD support group, taught calligraphy, conducted journal writing workshops at a domestic violence shelter, given poetry workshops, worked as a graphic artist and a conservation picture framing specialist, and participated in Pet-a-Pet therapy with her chocolate Lab. She currently volunteers at Neighborhood House, a local nonprofit. She attended Cooper School of Art in Cleveland as a scholarship student, and holds an M.F.A. from the University of Southern Maine. Widely published, she lives with her husband and two incorrigible corgis in southeast Michigan.
Long bio:
Linda K. Sienkiewicz is an author, poet, artist and blogger. Her short stories, poems, essays and art have been published in numerous anthologies and literary journals, such as Prairie Schooner, Permafrost, Clackamas Literary Review, Paterson Review, New Ohio Review, The MacGuffin and Spoon River Poetry Review. Her essay, “My Horrible Celebrity Crush,” appears in Idol Talk: Women Writers on the Teenage Infatuations that Changed Their Lives, published by McFarland. Her debut novel, In the Context of Love, was a finalist for multiple awards, and she is the recipient of a poetry chapbook award from Heartlands Today and a Pushcart Prize nomination. Sienkiewicz has authored three other chapbooks: Postcard of a Naked Man; Dear Jim; and Security. She wrote and illustrated a children’s picture book, Gordy and the Ghost Crab, published in 2020. She is a member of Detroit Working Writers, Detroit Writers Guild, Poetry Society of Michigan, Michigan Poets, Springfed Arts and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
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.