Linda Strever

Linda Stever is a Northwest writer of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, living in Olympia, Washington.

Linda's award-winning, wide-ranging work gives voice to the capacity for resilience and transformation. Captivated by story and image, she creates poetry that is strongly narrative and visual. Metaphorical and character-centered, her fiction explores the emotional life and internal conflicts of her characters, providing the driving force for setting and plot.

Favorite themes in her work include family dynamics; coming of age; connections between love, art and re-creation; intersections of birth and death, peace and war; realities of solitude and self-reinvention. Powered by the twists, turns and sounds of language, elements of serendipity abound, along with the magical, the mysterious, and the unexplainable.

Through writing, not only
can I capture experience
in all its messiness, but I can
also uncover its universal core,
and in that revelation my writing becomes larger than
I am—enlarging me in its wake.

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My chapbook, My Life in Cars, is available from a wonderful small press, The Poetry Box:
         http://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/my-life-in-cars