Linda Beeman is an award-winning poet living on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks. "Wallace, Idaho" celebrates the history of her gritty silver-mining hometown. "Collateral Damage" quilts stories from the Afghan War into a patchwork of grief.
Her poems have appeared in Windfall, Raven Chronicles and online at Adanna and the University of Chicago’s Euphony. Selected poems from Collateral Damage won awards from Split This Rock and the Poetry Society of New Hampshire.