Look and Listen

Biography

Linda Wisniewski was born in a small town in upstate New York and raised in a Polish Catholic community in the 1950s and 60s. She studied sociology at the University of Buffalo and has a degree in library science from Villanova. She has been married twice and was a single mother for ten years in between. Her two grown sons now serve as her teachers in many ways. Linda has kept a diary all her life, and began writing for publication in the 1990s. She has published nationally and regionally on quilts, family relationships, women's issues and more.

Inspiration

I've always kept a diary, and in elementary school, I won a loaf of bread in an essay contest. My first paying assignment! Many years of living, working and becoming intervened until, when I turned fifty, an internal faucet turned on and my words spilled out on paper. I've enjoyed the support of the International Women's Writing Guild and the Story Circle Network, and learned much of what I know about writing from these wonderful women.