Linda Ravenswood is poet and performance artist from Los Angeles whose recent publications include the prize winning collection (The Arthur Smith Prize, 2023) -- a poem is a house -- (Madville Press 2024), Cantadora -- Letters from California (Eyewear London/The Black Spring Press Group 2023), The Stan Poems (Pedestrian Press, 2022), XLA POETS (Hinchas Press, 2021), You Will Not Be Forgotten - Tlacuilx (Hinchas de Poesia, 2021), and Hymnal (Mouthfeel Press, 2012). She is winner of the Oxford Prize in Poetry (2022), Edwin Markham Prize in Poetry (2022), Arthur Smith Prize in Poetry (2023), Gloucestershire Prize (2023), and has been nominated for multiple Pushcarts. Linda is the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Los Angeles Press, est. 2018, and is the founder of the poet laureate programme in Glendale, California (2022) and is currently collaborating with Burbank, California and Pasadena, California to bring Poet Laureate programmes to their cities. Linda was short listed for Poet Laureate of Los Angeles in 2017. She is NDN / First Nation (Pokanoket, Wampanoag) and a Mayflower descendant on her mother’s side, and an Indigenous / Mestizaje from Baja California Sur on her father’s side. She was raised in Los Angeles by Jewish Holocaust survivors from WWII.