Linda Bierds

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Linda Bierds is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at the University of Washington, from where she also received her B.A. in 1969. Her books include Flights of the Harvest Mare; The Stillness, the Dancing; Heart and Perimeter; and The Ghost Trio (Henry Holt 1994). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Artist Trust Foundation of Washington and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Since 1984, her work has appeared regularly in The New Yorker. In 1998 she was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship ("genius" grant).

• "Meriwether and the Magpie" by Linda Bierds is a poem recently published in Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts.