Linda Black is Editor of Long Poem Magazine. A poet, visual artist and dyslexia specialist, she has published five collections with Shearsman Books - a fifth, One Mind , will be published in early 2027. The Son of a Shoemaker (Hearing Eye), collaged prose poems about the early life of Hans Andersen, plus the author’s illustrations, was the subject of a Poetry Society Exhibition. She received a Poetry School Scholarship and won the New Writing Ventures Award for Poetry. Her first publication The Beating of Wings (Hearing Eye), was a PBS Pamphlet Choice.