Linda Lerner was born and educated in New York City; New York Quarterly Books published her most recent collection, Takes Guts & Years Sometimes June 2011. http://www.nyqbooks.org/title/takesgutsandyearssometimes She’s previously published thirteen collections of poetry: Something Is Burning In Brooklyn (2009, Iniquity Press/ Vendetta Books) Living In Dangerous Times (Presa Press, 2007) and City Woman (March Street Press, Fall, 2006, both Small Press Reviews’ Picks). Two previous collections also had that honor; she’s been nominated twice for a pushcart prize. In 1995 she and Andrew Gettler began Poets on the Line, (http://www.echony.com/~poets) the first poetry anthology on the Net for which she received two grants. She’s published in the New York Quarterly, Onthebus, Louisiana Review, Paterson Literary Review, Ragged Lion Anthology, Chiron Review, Danse Macabre, Tribes, Van Gogh’s Ear, Home Planet News, New Verse News, Gutter Eloquence, Rusty Truck, et.al. She has read widely across the United States She can be heard reading for indifeed at http://www.indiefeedpp.libsyn.com/ Scroll down to archives, and then click on September 2006-- To hear her reading three poems taped at Tribes.... Linda Lerner also teaches English at New York City College of Technology and BMCC.

Living In Dangerous Times (Presa :S: Press, 2007), City Woman (March Street Press, 2006), Because You Can't I will (Pudding House Publications, 2005), The Bowery And Other Poems (March Street Press, 2004), A Koan For Samsara (Ibbetson Street Press, 2003), Greatest Hits: 1989-2002 (Pudding House Publications, 2002), No Earthly Sense Gets It Right (Lummox Press, 2001), Anytimeblues (Ye Olde Fonte Shoppe, 1999)

Chance Of A Ghost (Helicon Nine Editions, 2005), Ragged Lion (Vagabond Press, 1999)

Big Hammer, Big Scream, Black Bear Review, Blue Collar Review, Home Planet News, Louisiana Review, New York Quarterly, Onthebus, Paterson Literary Review, Rattle