Linda Neal Reising, a native of Oklahoma and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, has been published in numerous journals, including The Southern Indiana Review, The Comstock Review, and Nimrod. Her work has also appeared in a number of anthologies, including Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperCollins), And Know This Place: Poetry of Indiana (Indiana Historical Society Press), and Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology (Madville Press).
She was named the winner of the 2012 Writer’s Digest Poetry Competition, and her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize four times. She was also named the 2024 Official Eclipse Poet of Indiana by Indiana Humanities.
Her first chapbook, Re-Writing Family History (Finishing Line Press), was a finalist for the 2015 Oklahoma Book Award and winner of the Oklahoma Writing Federation Poetry Book Contest. Reising’s first full-length collection, The Keeping (Finishing Line Press), won the 2020 Kops-Fetherling Phoenix Award for Outstanding New Voice in Poetry.
Her second, Stone Roses (Kelsay Books, 2021), was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award and the WILLA Award, as well as winning the 2022 Eric Hoffer Award and the Western Heritage Wrangler Award. Vivia ~ The Legend of Vivia Thomas: A Novelette in Poems (Kelsay Books, 2023), her latest full-length book, was a finalist for the 2024 Oklahoma Book Award, the International Book Award, and the Person of the Year Book Award. It was named a winner in the Bookfest Awards, the Feathered Quill Book Awards, the Typesmith Book Awards, the Human Relations Adventure Poetry Prize Director’s Choice, and the Literary Global Book Awards for Poetry and Novelette.
Reising’s chapbook Perpetual Astonishment won the Beyond Words Chapbook Award 2023 and was published in 2024. Her first book of fiction, Cigar Box of Loss: Stories from Route 66, is forthcoming from Belle Point Press.
Email: lv2write@tds.net
Website: lindanealreising.weebly.com
Facebook: Linda Neal Reising
Instagram: @nealreising
Paperback: 90 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (January 27, 2025)