Linda Dini Jenkins is a published poet, playwright and creative writing instructor. She is the author of Journey of a Returning Christian: Writing Into God (Chalice Press: 1994) and Sono italiana: a journey back to the beginning (Riverside Press, 2003). She has been published in a wide range of literary journals, including: Poeti italo-americani, Vermont Voices, South Florida Poetry Review, Phoebe, Peregrine, and Tampa Review. She is co-author, with Barbara Worton, of the play, If I’m Talking, Why Aren’t You Listening?, and is the author of another play, Things I Never Told My Mother.

For more than 30 years, Linda has been in the communications business. She is an expert interviewer, writer and focus group director. In another life, she was an account manager at Ogilvy & Mather Advertising; copy manager for the in-house communications group at Thomson Financial; co-founder of a private investment banking boutique; and general manager of an ad agency that specialized in television syndication clients.Today, her freelance clients include some of the world's largest financial and academic institutions.

Her first poem was published in the Massapequa Public School District’s anthology when she was eight years old and she has been striving for a Pulitzer ever since. Great Little Books LLC will perhaps help get her closer to this goal.

Linda teaches creative writing for church, community and senior organizations. A native New Yorker, she now lives in Midlothian, Virginia with her husband Tim and Maxine, the Wonder Dog.