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'''Linda McCarriston''' (born [[Lynn, Massachusetts]]) and holding [[dual citizenship]] of [[Ireland]] and the [[United States]], is a [[poet]] and [[Professor]] in the Department of [[Creative Writing]] and [[Literature]] at the [[University of Alaska Anchorage]], teaching [[creative writing]] and literary arts since 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/linda-mccarriston|title=Linda McCarriston|date=2017-07-27|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|others=Poetry Foundation|access-date=2017-07-28}}</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
McCarriston had completed her [[Master of Fine Arts]] in Creative Writing from [[Goddard College]] in [[Vermont]] and a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts|BFA]] at [[Emmanuel College (Massachusetts)|Emmanuel College]] in [[Boston]]. She has taught at [[Vermont College]], Goddard College and [[George Washington University]] and has been a [[Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study#Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program|Poetry Fellow]] at the Bunting Institute of [[Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study|Radcliffe College]].<ref name=alaska>{{cite web|url=http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/bookstore/authors/mccarriston.cfm |title=UAA Campus Bookstore Linda McCarriston |publisher=University of Alaska Anchorage |date=2007-01-23 |accessdate=2009-02-28}}</ref><ref name=alaskaprofessionalcommunicators>{{Cite journal|editor-last=Walters |editor-first=Diane |title=Poet and Teacher McCarriston is Named Alaska Press Women Communicator of Achievement |publisher=Alaska Press Women |year=2004 |volume=2 |url=http://www.akprocomm.org/pdf/04_may_articulation.pdf |series=35 |accessdate=2009-02-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724231238/http://www.akprocomm.org/pdf/04_may_articulation.pdf |archivedate=2011-07-24 }}</ref><br />
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==Poetry==<br />
American journalist, public commentator, and former [[White House Press Secretary]] [[Bill Moyers]] says she writes "about women, children, animals — healing" that "deal with the domestic violence that marred her childhood in [[working-class]] [[Lynn, Massachusetts]] and her subsequent feelings as a wife and mother."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/now/arts/mccarriston.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907210121/http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/mccarriston.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 7, 2012 |title=NOW with Bill Moyers. Arts & Culture. Poet Profile - Linda McCarriston |publisher=PBS |date=2002-02-22 |accessdate=2009-02-28}}</ref> According to [[National Book Award]] winner [[Lisel Mueller]]: ''"Linda McCarriston accomplishes a near miracle, transforming memories of trauma into poems that are luminous and often sacramental, arriving at a hard-won peace."''<ref name=alaska/><br />
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While she was writing for the ''[[Maine Sunday Telegram]]'', in Spring 1979 issue of literary journal ''[[Ploughshares]]'', printed her 5 poems named, "Moon in Aquarius", "Eve", "Desire", "The Cleaving" and "Intent" as her first poetry publication.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1002 |title=Spring 1979 Table of Contents |publisher=Ploughshares |date=1979-03-21 |accessdate=2009-02-28}}</ref><br />
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Her poems have appeared in ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]'', ''[[New England Monthly]]'', ''[[Harvard Review]]'' and "in a broad range of anthologies", she is interviewed by [[Terry Gross]] on ''Fresh Air'' (a local radio) and featured in [[Bill Moyers]]' "The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets" at [[Public Broadcasting Service]] (PBS) and book ''The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets'', 1995. She interviewed for ''All Things Considered'', National Public Radio (NPR), aired July 14, 2001, included in [[Linda Hogan (writer)|Linda Hogan]]'s "Intimate Nature" and [[Robert McDowell (poet)|Robert McDowell]]'s "Cowboy Poetry Matters" and in ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]''.<ref name=alaska/><ref name=alaskaprofessionalcommunicators/><ref>{{Cite journal | title =This year's COAN nominees for 2004 'Best of the Best' | journal =Agenda | volume =67 | issue =3 | pages =2 | publisher=National Feberation of press Women | year =2004 | url =http://www.nfpw.org/pdf/Agenda_Summer04.pdf }}</ref><br />
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Her poem "Le Coursier de [[Jeanne d'Arc]]" was [[Sheet music|scored]] for [[soprano]] [[Judith Coen]] by [[Bruno Rigacci]] and had its [[premiere]] at the [[Spoleto#Culture|Spoleto Arts Symposia]] in July 2000.<br />
<br>Two of her poems were read by [[Garrison Keillor]] in "The Writer's Almanac", [[NPR]], in the week of April 18, 2000. <br>Invited to contribute 60-page autobiography to Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, [[Gale Research]], 1996<br />
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She was a speaker with the poet Richard Hoffman, [[Grace Paley]], [[Marybeth Holleman]] and [[Elizabeth Wales]], at the panel titled "Writing with Heart AND Intellect" during Annual [[Association of Writers & Writing Programs|AWP]] Conference, [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]] on March 31, 2005.<ref>[http://www.abbington.com/hoffman/bio.htm Richard Hoffman Biography Page]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><br />
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==Honors and awards==<br />
* 1984, [[Association of Writers & Writing Programs|AWP Award]] Series Selection. {{citation needed|date=June 2013}}{{Clarify|date=April 2012}}<br />
* 1991, Eva-Mary, book of 35 poems, won the [[Terrence Des Pres]] Prize.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/now/arts/mccarriston.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907210121/http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/mccarriston.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 7, 2012|title=NOW with Bill Moyers. Arts & Culture. Poet Profile - Linda McCarriston|website=www.pbs.org|access-date=2017-07-28}}</ref><br />
* 1991, [[National Book Award for Poetry]] finalist, ''Eva-Mary.''<ref name=alaskaprofessionalcommunicators/><ref name=nba1991><br />
[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1991 "National Book Awards – 1991"]. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved 2012-04-13.</ref><br />
* 1996, Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Creative Activity, [[University of Alaska Anchorage|UAA]].<br />
* 2004, Alaska Press Women's Communicator of Achievement award, as APW Treasurer, for her "career accomplishments, as well as her participation in APW." Jan Ingram, from the award committee stated, "Linda is a nationally acclaimed poet who fought her way through difficult personal issues and the social pressures of her generation to find her voice. For her students and for the rest of us, she models courage and honesty."<ref name=alaskaprofessionalcommunicators/><br />
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==Works==<br />
*{{cite book| title=Talking Soft Dutch| publisher=Texas Tech Press| year=1984| isbn=978-0-89672-115-9| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/talkingsoftdutch00mcca}}<br />
*{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ipx9WEenQFYC&q=Linda+McCarriston| title=Eva-Mary| publisher=Northwestern University Press| year= 1991| isbn= 978-0-8101-5008-9 }}<br />
*{{cite book| title=As though you were rare, you confessed| publisher=[[Gaylord Schanilec|Midnight Paper Sales]]| year= 1997 }}<br />
*{{cite book| title=Little river: new & selected poems| publisher=Salmon Pub.| year= 2000| isbn=978-1-897648-17-9 }}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20021016005609/http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_mccarriston.html Interview transcript] from the [[Bill Moyers]] book and film, THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE: A FESTIVAL OF POETS on [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] TV channel<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090201100902/http://www.salmonpoetry.com/little.html Little River - Poems Selected & New] Salmon Poetry<br />
*[http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/artindex03.htm The Association of Writers and Writing Programs]<br />
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