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Linda Annas Ferguson

Linda Annas Ferguson is the author of four collections of poetry. Her full-length book, Bird Missing from One Shoulder (WordTech Editions) is available now. Her third chapbook, Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk (Finishing Line Press) was released in 2006.  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 was recently appointed to the Academy’s Board of Governors.

She was the winner of the Palanquin Press Competition of the University of S.C., Aiken for her chapbook, It’s Hard to Hate a Broken Thing.  Her second chapbook, Last Chance to Be Lost, was the winner of the Kentucky Writers’ Coalition Poetry Competition.  She was also a 2003 finalist in the John Ciardi Book Prize in Poetry of Bookmark Press, judged by Christopher Buckley and runner-up in the 2005 Texas Review Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize judged by R.S. Gwynn. She was a finalist in the 2005 Logan House Press Book Prize in Poetry and the White Eagle Coffee Store Press competition judged by John Surowiecki.

Her work is  featured in the anthologies Twenty: South Carolina Poetry Fellows, Hub City Writers’ Project (Feb. 2005) and A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry, Ninety-Six Press, Furman University (July, 2005), the 2006 edition of Kakalak, an Anthology of Carolina Poets, In the Yard by Old Mountain Press (2006), Southern Mist (Old Mountain Press), The Southern Poetry Anthology: South Carolina (Texas Review Press); and is forthcoming in Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease (Kent State University Press) and in The Poetry of Recovery: (Forthcoming, Sante Lucia Books)

She has been a featured poet at the Library of Congress Poetry at Noon Series; 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.