Bio:

Linda Boyden has spent most of her adult life leading children to literacy. From 1970-1997, she taught in primary grades, receiving her master’s in Gifted and Talented Education in 1992 from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. In 1997, Linda decided to change careers and abandoned full-time teaching for full-time writing. Her first picture book, “The Blue Roses”, debuted in 2002. It was the recipient of Lee and Low Books’ first New Voices Award, the 2003 Paterson Prize, Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers’ Book of the Year, Children’s Literature, 2002-2003, and was included on the prestigious CCBC (Cooperative Children’s Book Center) 2003 Choices list of recommended titles. In 2006, her “Grammy Linda” preschool storytelling DVD was released. In fall of ‘07 she wrote and illustrated her second picture book, “Powwow’s Coming” which was published by the University of New Mexico Press. She is currently at work on her third picture book, an ABC on loanwords from Native languages of the Americas to English, to be published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2009.
Linda is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers. She enjoys doing author visits and storytelling at schools and libraries as well as presenting workshops at writing conferences around the country. Visit www.lindaboyden.com

Writer/Illustrator
PAL
Member since 1997
Region: California: North/Central

Contact Information

Website:  http://www.lindaboyden.com

Published In Children's Market: Yes
Available for Speaking Engagements? Yes