Linda Neal first wrote poems when she was in high school. She went on to study literature at Pomona College, earn a degree in linguistics and a master’s degree in clinical psychology. Her life at the beach, passion for story and work as a therapist inform her award-winning poetry and prose which has appeared in numerous journals, including California State Poetry Quarterly, Easy Reader, Lummox, ONTHEBUS, Pacific Coast Journal, Peregrine (the Amherst poetry journal), Beecher’s Magazine, Santa Fe Literary Review and SLAB. Dodge & Burn (Bambaz Press), her poetry memoir, came out in 2014.