This blog hosts the collected works of Linnea Johnson — poetry, fiction, plays, essays, and visual art. On this Home page, posts below this one will feature an individual poem or section of a story or longer work, or a review.

On other pages, you’ll find biographical and bibliographical information, an art gallery, and links to the works available for download here and elsewhere. Eventually, you’ll also find information about how to help us keep this site and Linnea’s works available long after we’ve retired from the scene.

Linnea

The Memories page includes posts from many of Linnea’s friends and loved ones and fellow writers, and we invite everyone who knew and remembers her to  post your recollections on the Memories page, as well.

Creating this online collection of works is a labor of love — an ongoing labor, far from complete. Those of us involved in making the works available here have one major thing in common: we loved Linnea dearly, as a person and as a poet, storyteller, and artist. We also want ALL of her work to be available, for all time.

We’re also realists: life is too short to delay beginning until we think we’ve cross-referenced everything, noted every publication and re-publication, and left nothing out. So we’re starting now, and we’ll keep adding as much, as fast, as accurately as possible.

This is a big undertaking for us not-so-young, not-so-techie women. Linnea was a prolific writer. She wrote almost daily and she published and re-published much of her work. We have books, magazines, chapbooks, tiny chapbooks, notebooks of typed or printed manuscripts, steno pads, boxes, a filing cabinet of full folders, framed works, and myriad computer files to organize and compare. However, we don’t have everything, because Linnea wrote hundreds of letters – by hand, on the typewriter, and via email – and she gave away many of her paintings and drawings.

If you knew Linnea and think you may have something by her that we don’t have, please let us know. Just post a comment here and/or email digital copies of written items and digital photographs of artwork to linneajohnsonauthor@gmail.com.

A FINAL NOTE: The material on this site is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0 license. For the legalese, go tohttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/byncsa/3.0/.

In plain English, this means you are free to:

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially

under the following terms:

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. The best way to do this is with a traditional note (e.g., Linnea Johnson, “Freya’s Ravens,” Swedish Christmas, p. 5, http://www.LinneaJohnsonauthor.com, 2014.)
• ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
• No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.