Linda Annas Ferguson

LITERARY RESUME

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PUBLICATIONS:

​What the Mirrors Knew: (Novel)

Dirt Sandwich, Press 53 (full-length poetry book)

Bird Missing from One Shoulder, WordTech Editions (full-length poetry book)

Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk, Finishing Line Press (poetry chapbook)

Last Chance to Be Lost, Kentucky Writers’ Coalition (poetry chapbook)

It’s Hard to Hate a Broken Thing, University of SC, Aiken (poetry chapbook)

 

LITERARY WORK IN ARCHIVAL COLLECTION

Special Collections and Archives Department of the James B. Duke Library:

South Carolina Poetry Archives, Furman University

 

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

​Independent Author Awards: Finalist for What the Mirrors Knew:2026

Hawthorn Prize: Shortlisted for What the Mirrors Knew: 2026

Next Generation Indie Book Award: Finalist for Dirt Sandwich 2010

Kentucky Writers’ Coalition 2003 Chapbook Award and publication

Palanquin Press 2002 Chapbook Award and publication, University of South Carolina Aiken

 

FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

Poetry Fellow: South Carolina Arts Commission (Selected by David Trinidad) 2004-2005

Poetry Fellow: South Carolina Academy of Authors (1999)

 

NOMINATIONS FOR AWARDS

Pushcart Prize by Press 53

Pushcart Prize by Wild Goose Poetry Review     

Best of the Net

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READING: NOTABLE

Library of Congress Poetry at Noon Series, Washington DC

Piccolo Spoleto Fiction Series, Charleston, SC:  2026

 

RESIDENCIES

Poet-in-Residence: Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC (past) Teaching position

 

SPECIAL ONLINE PUBLICATION: Verse Daily

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EDUCATIONAL MENTOR

Charleston School of the Arts: Poetry Mentor: (5 years)

 

UNIVERSITY & COLLEGE: VISITING WRITER

Contemporary Literature, Upper Division Course, Furman University

Montgomery College, Germantown, Maryland

Towson University, Towson, Maryland

Furman University, class presentation with Susan Laughter Myers

 

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE READINGS

Harford Community College, Bel Air, Maryland

College of Charleston, SC: Anthology reading

Montgomery College, Germantown, Maryland

Waccamaw Higher Education Center, Coastal Carolina University, Litchfield, SC\

University of SC: McMaster’s Art Gallery: Supporting reader

Catawba College, Salisbury NC: Poetry Council Reading

           

POETRY EXHIBITS

“Archives of Babel” Special Collections and Archives Department, James B. Duke Library:

South Carolina Poetry Archives, Furman University

“Vision and Voice” Weymouth Center for the Creative Arts and Humanities: Southern Pines, NC

Saul Alexander Gallery, Charleston County Library: The Pieta with artist Peggy Howe