Linda met Robyn and Ita some years ago in Clifden at a poetry workshop. Following a long career as editor and director of communications at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, she has happily traded the language of scientists and engineers for that of poets and writers. She is a graduate of the Publications Management Program at The George Washington University and of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. An annual visitor to Clifden, Ireland for many years, Linda now lives under the blue skies of New Mexico.