Author: Linda Annas Ferguson
Dates: 7-1-2008
Bio: Linda Annas Ferguson is the author of five collections of poetry: Dirt Sandwich (Press 53) Bird Missing from One Shoulder (WordTech Editions, 2007); Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk (Finishing Line Press, 2006); Last Chance to Be Lost (Kentucky Writers’ Coalition, 2004); and It’s Hard to Hate a Broken Thing (Palanquin Press, University of S.C. Aiken, 2002). She was the 2005 Poetry Fellow for the South Carolina Arts Commission and served as the 2003-04 Poet-in-Residence for the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, S.C.  She is a recipient of the Poetry Fellowship of the South Carolina Academy of Authors. 

Her work is featured in the anthologies Twenty: South Carolina Poetry Fellows, Hub City Writers’ Project (Feb. 2005); A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry, Ninety-Six Press, Furman University (July, 2005), 2006 Kakalak, an Anthology of Carolina Poets, The Southern Poetry Anthology: South Carolina (Texas Review Press, 2007) and is forthcoming in Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease (Kent State University Press).  www.lindaannasferguson.com