Judge Norma West Linder

             Norma West Linder was born in Toronto, spent her childhood on Manitoulin Island, and teenage years in Muskoka. Linder is the author of five novels, fifteen collections of poetry, a memoir of Manitoulin Island, two children’s books, and a biography of Pauline McGibbon. For twenty-four years she was on the faculty of Lambton College in Sarnia, teaching English and Creative Writing. For seven years she wrote a monthly column for The Observer. Her short stories have been published internationally, broadcast on the CBC, and published in major magazines like Chatelaine. They are widely anthologized.

            In 2006 she compiled and edited Enchanted Crossroads for The Ontario Poetry Society. Her latest poetry books are Two Paths Through The Seasons and Adder’s-tongues: A Choice of Norma West Linder’s Poems, 1969 – 2011. A short story collection was recently issued: No Common Thread: The Selected Short Fiction of Norma West Linder. And late last year she published The Pastel Planet, her second novel for children.

            Linder lives in Sarnia. She is the mother of Straja, Karen, and Jay.