About Linda Aldrich
Linda Aldrich grew up in New Hampshire and has lived in France, San Francisco, Colorado, and Vermont—places she still misses. She currently lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband, David Miller, and their exceptional dog Simba.
Linda has published three collections of poetry: Foothold (2008), March and Mad Women (2012), and Ballast (2021). She served as Portland, Maine’s Poet Laureate from 2018-21, during which time she hosted the Leaf of Voices poetry reading series at the Portland Public Library and co-hosted with Marcia F. Brown the Local Buzz reading series in Cape Elizabeth. In 2023, Linda won the Maine Poetry Literary Award in Short Works and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Hole-in-the Head Review.
Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, among them The Cafe Review, Crazy Woman Creek, Indiana Review, Cimarron Review, Elixir, Hole-in-the Head Review, The Denver Quarterly, Ellipsis, The Florida Review, The Ilanot Review, Off the Coast, Poet Lore, Third Coast, Puerto del Sol, Solstice Literary Magazine, Snake Nation Review, The Best of Write Action, Words and Images, Balancing Act 2: Poems by Fifty Maine Women, and Wait: Poems from the Pandemic (Littoral Press). She received a 2017 Hewnoaks writing residency, and her poem “Woman-without-Arms” won the Emily Dickinson Award from Universities West Press.
Linda is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire (English and French), Florida State University (MA Theatre Arts), and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA/ Poetry). She was director of the Young Conservatory and a member of the repertory at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco for ten years and later was Associate Professor of English and Humanities at Aims Community College in Greeley, Colorado. She has taught Critical Thinking and Writing courses at Keene State College and Southern Maine Community College.