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Linda Annas Ferguson

Linda Annas Ferguson is the author of five collections of poetry. Dirt Sandwich, September, 2009 (available for order from Press53), Bird Missing from One Shoulder (WordTech Editions), Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk (Finishing Line Press), It’s Hard to Hate a Broken Thing, winner of the Palanquin Press Competition of the University of S.C., Aiken, and Last Chance to Be Lost,  winner of the Kentucky Writers’ Coalition Poetry Competition .  She was the 2005 Poetry Fellow for the South Carolina Arts Commission selected by David Trinidad and served as the 2003-2004 Poet-in-Residence for the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, S.C.  A recipient of the Poetry Fellowship of the South Carolina Academy of Authors, she is a member of the Academy’s Board of Governors. She was a featured poet for the Library of Congress Poetry at Noon Series and her work is archived by Furman University's Special Collections in the James B. Duke Library.

Her work is  featured in the anthologies Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease (Kent State University Press, 2009);  Eating Her Wedding Dress (Ragged Sky Press, 2009).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); Kakalak 2006: An Anthology of Carolina Poets; Aftershocks: The Poetry of Recovery: ( Sante Lucia Books, 2008); and The Southern Poetry Anthology: South Carolina (Texas Review Press, 2007);

She has been a featured poet at the South Carolina Book Festival; South Carolina Poetry Initiative of the University of South Carolina; Piccolo Spoleto’s Sundown Poetry Series in Charleston, S.C.; Isothermal College Writers' Workshop; the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, Southern Pines, N.C. and other venues. Her songs were performed in "Indigo Jazz," a presentation by the Low Country Heritage Society in conjunction with the College of Charleston School of the Arts.  She has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. A 2007 and 2008 finalist for the Brockman-Campbell Book Award her books Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk and Bird Missing from One Shoulder, was also a runner-up for the Oscar Arnold Young Book Award. Most recently, she was a finalist in the 2010 Next Generation Indie Award.

A native of North Carolina, she divides her time between its green rolling hills and the coastal lure of Charleston, SC.