Linda L. Beeman

Linda Beeman is an award-winning poet and non-fiction writer living on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. She is the author of 'Wallace, Idaho' and 'Collateral Damage' -- tributes to her hometown and to those scarred by the Afghan War.

Her most recent chapbook, 'Our Whidbey Year' praises notable annual events -- March peeper chorusing, yellowing Scotch broom, return of the whales in Saratoga Passage -- that bind people to Whidbey Island. "I'm an erratic here myself," she says, "discovering constellations in iced potholes and foxgloves' sinister side."

Her exploratory travel articles appeared in The Los Angeles Times and The Foreign Service Journal.