Turtle Woman: & other poems - Softcover

Linda Sue Grimes began studying and writing poetry in high school, encouraged by her creative writing teacher, the late poet/playwright, Malcolm M. Sedam and English teacher, Mrs. Edna Pickett. A native of central Indiana on the Indiana-Ohio border, she attended Abington Township Elementary School, Centerville Senior High School, Miami University, and Ball State University. Earning a Ph.D. in English in 1987, Grimes taught English composition for fifteen years at Ball State. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, and she has published four books, Jiggery-Jee’s Eden Valley Stories and Singing in the Silence, The Rustic Veggie-Table, and Command Performance: Singing for God and Guru. She maintains a literary presence on the Internet at Maya Shedd’s Temple: Literary Home of Linda Sue Grimes. Grimes resides in Tennessee with her husband, Ron.