Moira Linehan

Discipline: Poetry

Based In: Winchester, MA

Year at Millay: 1995

Awards/Honors: Award Winner, Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards, Crab Orchard Review, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL (2006); Artist-in-Residence, VCCA Residency, Amherst, VA.

Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moira_Linehan

Moira Linehan (1945–2023) was an American poet. She graduated from Boston College, and Vermont College of Fine Arts, with an MFA. She lived in Winchester, Massachusetts, where she worked as an academic administrator. Linehan was the author of four collections of poetry. Her first two books, If No Moon (2007) and Incarnate Grace (2015), were published by Southern Illinois University Press. In June 2020, Slant Books published her third collection, Toward. She was a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Linehan had poems appear in such journals as AGNI, The Georgia Review, Image, Nimrod, Notre Dame Review, Poet Lore, Poetry, Poetry East, and Prairie Schooner, among others.