Former Philadelphian Linda Backiel is coming to Big Blue Marble to celebrate her 75th birthday and the launch of her (next) career writing narratives and poetry. Join her to reconnect and to hear her new work.

Linda Backiel lives in Puerto Rico, where she practices criminal defense and appellate law. She lived in Philadelphia during the 1970s and ‘80s. She worked with Women in Transition, and as a teacher at Parkway Program, Community Women’s Education Program, and Rutgers and Community College Weekend Education programs. She was also a lawyer at Kairys & Rudovsky and at the Defender Association. During those years she published her poetry in Off Our Backs, 13 Moons and other feminist publications. Since moving to Puerto Rico, she has turned to narrative, studying with Sandra Cisneros at the Macondo writer’s community, with Magda Bogin and Álvaro Enrigue at Under the Volcano in Tepoztlán, Mexico, and with Mayra Santos Febres in Puerto Rico. Her most recent publications in English have been in Monthly Review (poetry and essays) and in Spanish in Borealis (fiction).