LINDA LEEDY SCHNEIDER is a poetry and writing mentor, psychotherapist in private practice, and recipient of a Pushcart nomination. She has taught at Aquinas College and Kendall College of Art and Design. Her poetry has been published in over 200 literary magazines including Rattle Magazine, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Perigee, and The Ambassador Poetry Project. She has written five collections of poetry including Through My Window: Poetry of a Psychotherapist and edited two collections of poetry by writers she has mentored. Mentor's Bouquet will be released soon by Finishing Line Press. Linda gives readings often and was featured at The Saturn Poetry Series, East Village NYC. The Back Fence, NYC, The Bowery Poetry Club, NYC and Peter Chelnick's Prairie Fire Series. NYC.

Through My Window: Poetry of a Psychotherapist (Pudding House Publications, 2007), Life: A Printed Quilt (Ackeecha Press, 2002), Through the Lattice: Poetry of a Psychotherapist (Argonne House Press, 2002), Love, Loneliness and Life: Poetry of A Psychotherapist (Apple Orchard Press, 1997)

Mentor's Bouquet- Editor (Finishing Line Press, 2010), Not A Muse (Haven Books, 2009)

Clockwise Cat, Driftwood Review, Jerseyworks, Miranda Literary Magazine, Onthebus, Other Poetry, Pedestal Magazine, Poetry Midwest, Pudding Magazine, Pulsar Poetry Magazine, Rattle, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Heartland Review, The Other Voices International Project, Word Riot, Word Wrights, Writer Advice