Poet Linda Norton
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Linda Norton is the author of Wite Out: Love and Work (2020), a memoir with poems, and its prequel, The Public Gardens: Poems and History (2011, introduction by Fanny Howe), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Norton is also the author of two chapbooks, Hesitation Kit (2007) and Dark White (2019). 

Norton received a Creative Work Fund grant in 2014, the year she exhibited her collages at the Dock arts center in Ireland with support from the US Embassy in Dublin. Her collages have appeared on the covers of her own books as well as books by Claudia Rankine, Julie Carr, and other writers. She was a 2020 columnist-in-residence at the SFMoMA Open Space.

Norton was born in Boston and lived in Brooklyn for many years before moving to Oakland, where she raised her daughter and met her foster son. Norton’s children are the heart and soul of Wite Out, a book John Keene and Eileen Myles call a “masterpiece” and Norman Fischer calls “a gorgeous, courageous book.”

Norton is a dual citizen of the US and Ireland/EU. She teaches online at the Yeats Academy at IT Sligo/Atlantic Technological University in Connaught, Ireland.