Linda Dove is a poet, a critic, a professor, and a mother. She holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance literature and is the author of In Defense of Objects (Bear Star Press, winner of the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Award, 2009), O Dear Deer, (Squall Publishing, winner of the Eudaimonia Poetry Review Chapbook Prize, 2011), This Too (Tebot Bach, winner of the Clockwise Chapbook Award, 2017), Fearn (Cooper Dillon Books, 2019), and Switchfish (Gatehouse, 2023). Poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and were a finalist for the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America. She recently moved back to her hometown on the east coast, although she still teaches remotely for Woodbury University in Los Angeles, where she is the founding faculty editor of MORIA Literary Magazine.