Linda Allardt
is an experienced poet and small-press editor. She has written three books of poetry, including her most recent, River Effect (State Street Press), described by the Comstock Review as "well-wrought lyrical free-verse, gentle and elegiac in tone." Some of her new poetry has appeared in West Branch, White Pelican, and Sulphur River Review. Linda teaches regularly at W&B, and she has taught poetry and creative writing at St. John Fisher College , the University of Rochester , and the Eastman School .