Linda Ravenswood

Winner of both an Oxford Prize in Poetry and the Edwin Markham Prize in Poetry, Linda Ravenswood is a poet and performance artist living in Los Angeles. Working closely with arts organizations, including the Poetry Society of New York and Red Light Lit, Ravenswood fuses visual and performance art in poetry reading and burlesque venues as well as deconstructed live literature events. Her collection Cantadora: Letters from California was published in January 2023. Other publications include The Stan Poems (Pedestrian Press, 2022), the forthcoming a poem is a house (FlowerSong Press, 2023), and If we never meet again: A Pandemic diary (X Artists’ Books, 2023).

Ravenswood was educated at CalArts and Mount St. Mary’s College (MA 2009) and is completing a PhD from the Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her arts praxes include collaboration, teaching, and curating arts events and publications. She is the founding editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Press and is the founder of the poet laureate programme in Glendale, California.