Linda Lee Harper

Linda Lee Harper is a poet who divides her time between Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina, and Augusta, Georgia. She was born in Cincinnati and holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh. Her full-length collection Kiss, Kiss was published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2007. Her earlier book Toward Desire won the 1995 Washington Prize for Poetry and was published by Word Works in 1996. Her poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Rattle, Seneca Review, and Southern Humanities Review. She has held fellowship residences at Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.