Linda Imbler lives in Wichita, Kansas with her husband, Mike the Luthier, several saltwater fish, and a steadily growing family of guitars. In addition to playing classical guitar and helping Mike build guitars, she is an avid reader, art enthusiast, Yoga and Tai Chi practitioner, nighttime star gazer, and budding artist. Linda Imbler’s poetry collections include nine published paperbacks: Big Questions, Little Sleep First Edition; Big Questions, Little Sleep second edition; Lost and Found; Red Is The Sunrise; Bus Lights; Travel Sight; Spica’s Frequency; Doubt and Truth; A Mad Dance; Twelvemonth; and Viewpoints While In Rome. Soma Publishing has published her four e-book collections, The Sea’s Secret Song; Pairings, a hybrid of short fiction and poetry; That Fifth Element; and Per Quindecim. Her poem "Ensorcelled Within the Moonlit Eyes of P'aqo" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry. Her poems "The Value of Shadows," "Guitar," "A Train To Somewhere," "Where's Redemption?," "Back On The Polychromatic Drip-Dry Flying Carpet," "Screaming Pretty" and "Delirium Through The Drained Glass" have all been nominated for a Best of the Net Award. Her poetry has been translated into Malayalam, Norwegian, Sequoyah-Cherokee, Hebrew, Swedish, Greek, Afrikaans, French, Mauritian Kreol, and Spanish. You can see some of her work on her poetry blog: lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com In addition to her poems, one can listen to radio interviews, and watch some of her poetry videos produced by the talented Tim Sanders. You may also see a list of forthcoming projects. Linda’s Poetic Journey: As a young girl, she used to write poetry about what she observed in nature. Back then, everything had to rhyme. She made her own poetry books from paper, cardboard, and shiny wrapping paper. As she went into her teens, she began to hear poetry through music lyrics. This is when she began to jot images and thoughts in response to more of what was happening around her. This influence was huge, and this visceral response to life became and continues to be the impetus for most of her poetry. Linda also has made it a hard and fast rule that the style must fit the poem and not the other way around. This has required her to study different styles (Pantoum, Triolet Tanka, free verse) and to learn to appreciate the words of many different poets, as well as the 'shape' of those words. Throughout the days and nights, she records thoughts and images on the closest thing to write on. The sorting and then creating with all the paper scraps, napkins, etc. has been a wonderful, gigantic, frightening, and satisfying adventure. One that Linda plans to continue indefinitely.