Linda Kleinbub is the author of Appear to Dance (Pink Trees Press, 2024) Cover Charge (Autonomedia, 2022) and co-editor of Silver Tongued Devil Anthology (Pink Trees Press, 2020.) Her poem “Art” was included in Best American Poetry 2014. She’s the founding editor of Pink Trees Press, curator of Fahrenheit Open Mic & founder of Pen Pal Poets. Linda was one of six local poets invited to read at the Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2021. She is a member of brevitas, a community of invited poets who share short poetry via email twice a month.  She received her Master of Fine Art in Creative Writing from The New School. She’s hosted readings at the New York City Poetry Festival, 6BC Botanical Garden, and Black & White. She’s published in The Brooklyn Rail, The Observer, Sensitive Skin Magazine, Yahoo! Life, LiveMag!, and many anthologies. Some of her published work is found at https://www.instagram.com/lindakleinbub/ [2]