Linda Parsons
is the poetry editor for Madville Publishing and the copy editor for Chapter 16, the literary website of Humanities Tennessee. She is published in such journals as The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Terrain, The Chattahoochee Review, Baltimore Review, and Shenandoah. Her sixth poetry collection, Valediction, is forthcoming from Madville in 2023. Five of her plays have been produced by Flying Anvil Theatre in Knoxville, Tennessee.