Linda Lowen is an award-winning writer and radio producer who has earned national recognition for her coverage of women's issues, medicine and health, and parenting. She is co-host/producer of the weekly health and wellness show Take Care on WRVO Public Media, an NPR affiliate in upstate New York.

 

Linda is the founder of AlwaysWantedToWrite.com, a writing studio that offers in-person and online workshops for beginner to intermediate writers. She teaches creative non-fiction writing at the Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse, NY where her classes run the gamut from memoir to blogging. She also presents workshops at writing festivals and women’s conferences

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She is the editor of Hopeful, Grateful, Strong, an anthology of cancer survivor stories (June 2015). Her essay “Hillary Clinton, Everymother,” appears in the anthology Love Her, Love Her Not:  The Hillary Paradox (November 2015), edited by Joanne Bamberger. The book was designated an Amazon Hot New Release and won a Next Generation Indie Book Award in the Women’s Issues category.

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As editor/writer/content producer for Women’s Issues at About.com, she has written over 2400 articles and blog posts on issues that have an impact on women’s lives. 

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Her micro memoir Pat the Bunny was published in The Writer Magazine in December 2017, spurring her to create a workshop to teach the form to others. Currently she's working on a craft book, Writing Micro Memoir. Linda has presented workshops at the Chautauqua Writers' Festival, HippoCamp 2019, Pyramid Lake Women's Writing Retreat, and at writing conferences across the Northeast.

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This is Linda’s third Festival as a participating writer and she will be offering the Writing Workshop, “GOING DEEP WITH MICRO MEMOIR”.