About
Linda Flaherty Haltmaier is the award-winning author of four poetry collections and the Poet Laureate Emeritus of Andover, MA. Named the winner of the Robert Frost Poetry Prize, she is known for her "sensational imagery, her deft ear for the music of language, and her emotional sonar for sounding the depths of love (and anger.)" Her latest offering, Shadows Set to Burn, is the winner of the 2024 International Book Award for Narrative Poetry.
Her debut collection, Rolling up the Sky, claimed the Homebound Publications Poetry Prize and her follow-up collection, To the Left of the Sun, won the American Book Fest Award for Poetry. Additional accolades include winning the JuxtaProse Poetry Prize and the Palm Beach Poetry Festival Competition, as well as Finalist honors for the Princemere Poetry Prize, the New Millenium Award for Poetry, the Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize, the Rash Award for Poetry, and the Tucson Festival of the Book Literary Award, among others.
A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Linda has been featured widely in journals and anthologies including Switchgrass Review, WSQ, Ink & Letters, Wild Word, and more. Her debut chapbook, Catch and Release, was published by Finishing Line Press. A graduate of Harvard, Linda leads poetry workshops, gives readings, and promotes poetry on the North Shore of Boston where she lives with her husband and daughter.