Linda Boyden

Linda Boyden (born July 6, 1948) is an American poet and children's books writer.

Background Born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, Boyden is the daughter of Ray Simmons and Marie Dargis Simmons. In 1970, she graduated from Framingham State College with a bachelor of science in education degree. She received a master's of education degree from the University of Virginia in 1992.

Career Boyden began teaching first grade in a school in Baltimore in 1970 and taught "on and off" for 17 years.

Awards Wordcraft Circle named The Blue Roses its Book of the Year for Children's Literature.

Personal life In 1988, she married engineer John P. Boyden.

Anthologies Woven on the Wind: Women Write about Friendship in the Sagebrush West, Linda Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis (Editors), Mariner Books, 2001. Through the Eye of the Deer, Carolyn Dunn & Carol Comfort (Editors), Consortium Books, 1999. Maui Muses, Vol. II, edited by Maui Live Poets, 1997.