Linda Besner is a writer currently based in Toronto. Her magazine and newspaper journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Globe & Mail, The Walrus, Hazlitt, enRoute, and Real Life among other publications. She has won two Silver National Magazine Awards, for pieces on the continuing gender-gap in architecture and writers’ residencies that let you eat chocolate cake for breakfast.
Her most recent poetry collection, Feel Happier in Nine Seconds, was a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize and was excerpted in The New York Times Magazine. Her previous poetry book, The Id Kid, was named one of the National Post’s best poetry books of the year. Her poetry has appeared in The Boston Review, The Awl, Maisonneuve, The Malahat Review, Arc, The Walrus, and The Fiddlehead among others. Her poems have been anthologized in The Best Canadian Poetry 2012 and The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry.
Besner has been a Fellow at MacDowell, and was named a Writers’ Trust of Canada Best Emerging Artist. At MacDowell, she worked on her second book of poetry.
