Linda Gregg

Linda Alouise Gregg (born September 9, 1942 in Suffern, New York) is an American poet.

Although born just miles northwest of New York City, Ms. Gregg grew up on the other side of the country, in Marin County, California. She received both her Bachelor of Arts, in 1967, and her Master of Arts, in 1972, from San Francisco State College. Her first book of poems, Too Bright to See, was published in 1981.

She was in a long relationship to poet Jack Gilbert, and later married writer, political activist, and philosophy professor John Brentlinger. The couple divorced in 1990.

Her published books include Things and Flesh, Chosen By The Lion, The Sacraments of Desire, Alma, Too Bright to See, In the Middle Distance, and All of it Singing. Her poems have also appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Ploughshares, The New Yorker, the Paris Review, the Kenyon Review, and the Atlantic Monthly.

She began teaching poetry at schools like Indian Valley College, University of Tucson, Napa State, and Louisiana State University. She has since taught at the University of Iowa, Columbia University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Houston, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has been living in New York City since 2006, and for two years was a Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program in the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts at Princeton University.

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