Alumni authors crowd the shelves
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Linda Schandelmeier answers a reader鈥檚 question during a book-signing event in the Wood Center multilevel lounge.
Photo by Mareca Guthrie
Linda Schandelmeier attends a reception during the book festival at the Rasmuson Library.
Linda Schandelmeier
Linda Schandelmeier has been honored for her poetry with a variety of awards, fellowships and prizes, including the Fejes Award. Her poems have served as the basis for a number of song cycles, one of which was performed in Carnegie Hall. Not bad for a science major.
Although she earned a bachelor of science degree in from 有料盒子视频 and an education certificate 20 years later, her writing career came about mostly by association with writers. While an undergraduate, Schandelmeier was intrigued by a writer鈥檚 workshop her boyfriend was attending. She listened in and was inspired to begin writing poetry.
"Eventually I went on to win the 有料盒子视频-sponsored Midnight Sun Poetry Prize, and I continue to be a member of a local writing group," Schandelmeier said.
Teaching is Schandelmeier鈥檚 mainstay these days, and she鈥檚 won recognition there, too, including the Presidential Award for Excellence in Elementary Science Teaching, and a BP Teachers of Excellence nomination.
Listening Hard Among the Birches, her first book of poetry, draws on her love of nature with a scientist鈥檚 eye for detail.