Linda McCauley Freeman is the author of two full-length poetry collections, The Marriage Manual (Backroom Window Press, 2024) and The Family Plot (Backroom Window Press, 2022), and has been widely published in international journals, including in a Chinese translation. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been the featured U.S. poet in The POET Magazine, won the Grand Prize in Storiarts’ Maya Angelou poetry contest, and won honorable mention in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards 2024. Lines from her poem Made in America were selected by Kwame Alexander to use in his “A Civil Community” poem and are on display at the Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery, Alabama. She has an MFA from Bennington College and is the former poet-in-residence of the Putnam Arts Council. She lives in the Hudson Valley, New York, where she is a swing dance teacher and a yoga instructor. Follow her at www.LindaMcCauleyFreeman.com.
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