Linda Boyden

ACORN's Editor

Linda Boyden has spent most of her adult life leading children to literacy. From 1970-1997, she taught in elementary schools and received her master’s in Gifted and Talented Education in 1992 from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

In 1997, Linda decided to change careers and abandoned full-time teaching for full-time writing. In 2002, her first picture book, The Blue Roses, was published by Lee & Low Books. It was the recipient of Lee and Low Books’ first New Voices Award in the year 2000, the 2003 Paterson Prize in its age category, Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers’ Book of the Year, Children’s Literature, 2002-2003, and was included on the prestigious CCBC (Cooperative Children’s Book Center) 2003 Choices list of recommended titles.

Linda is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers. She enjoys doing school visits and storytelling at schools and libraries across the country.

Her recent publications include a CD of her Native American storytelling, Dikanohelvsdi Elisi Unitseli, Stories of the Grandmothers; a preschool storytelling DVD for preschool through second grade, Grammy Linda and Her Magic Window; and two adult-level poetry books, WomanSong and Cemetery Plots. In 2006, she won First Prize at the 5th Annual Pleasanton Poetry Festival in Pleasanton, CA.

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