Linda Flaherty Haltmaier

Wellesley High School Author: Linda Flaherty Haltmaier

            Linda Flaherty Haltmaier is an award-winning author and the Poet Laureate Emeritus of Andover, Massachusetts. She is the winner of the Homebound Publications Poetry Prize for her full-length collection, Rolling up the Sky. Her latest collection, To the Left of the Sun, is the winner of the International Book Award for Poetry. Her work has earned numerous awards including first place in the Palm Beach Poetry Festival Competition, finalist honors for the Princemere Poetry Prize, the New Millenium Award for Poetry, the Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize, the Rash Award for Poetry, the Tucson Festival of the Book Literary Award, and been shortlisted for the Robert Frost Poetry Prize.

            Linda’s poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and have appeared extensively in journals and anthologies including Switchgrass Review, WSQ, Ink & Letters, Wild Word, and more. Her debut chapbook, Catch and Release, was published by Finishing Line Press. A graduate of Harvard, Linda leads poetry workshops, gives readings, and promotes poetry on the North Shore of Boston where she lives with her husband and daughter.