Linda Bamber grew up in Paris, Bonn, and Athens, where her father was posted as a U.S diplomat. She returned to the United States to attend Vassar College, after which she earned her M.A. from Columbia and her Ph.D. from Tufts University. She went on to become a Professor in the Tufts Department of English, where she spent her entire career. Her book on Shakespeare, Comic Women, Tragic Men, was published by Stanford University Press. After several years of academic scholarship, she turned her primary focus to her own poetry and fiction.

Linda’s poetry collection, Metropolitan Tang, was published by David R. Godine, as was her fiction collection, Taking What I Like. Her poems, stories, essays and reviews have appeared in The Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Agni, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New York Times, The Massachusetts Review, Southwest Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Florida Review, The Missouri Review and elsewhere. She is currently writing a novel about the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Linda has had a Buddhist practice for over thirty years. Her work has appeared in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, and her essay, “Reading as a Buddhist,” is included in Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art, a collection of essays on Buddhism in the visual arts. You can read that essay here. These interests as well as her many political engagements are reflected in her work.