Linda Ravenswood

Linda Ravenswood
Carolyn Forche and Linda Ravenswood in Los Angeles.
Born	Los Angeles, California

Linda Ravenswood is a writer, artist, and vocalist who currently resides in Los Angeles. The play Bike Odyssey L.A. (with Brian Sonia Wallace) won a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant in 2014.Bike Odyssey L.A. was also awarded a Producer's Encore Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival where it premiered. Her first book Hymnal from Mouthfeel Press, 2012 and short story The Infant Golem of Prague The Bicycle Review, 2012 were nominated for the Pushcart Prize. The poem The peas from Hymnal received a Pushcart Prize nomination for Poetry in 2013. Her work has been recognized by The City of Los Angeles, The City of West Hollywood, The Los Angeles Library Foundation and The Metropolitan Transit Authority for Bike Odyssey L.A. She was a Finalist for Poet Laureate of West Hollywood in 2016.

Linda Ravenswood was born in Los Angeles, California of English, Irish, Czech, Danish, Native American (Wampanoag) and other ancestry. She is a descendent of the Mayflower adventurer Stephen Hopkins. She holds a BFA from (CalArts) and an MA from Mount Saint Mary's College. She has lived extensively in the US, Ireland and the UK. Her father, Oscar Montano, was a well known barman, semi - pro golfer, and raconteur in Burbank, California. Born in Baja California, his nightclub Sardo's, was a hangout and unofficial club house for the NBC Studios, whose headquarters were around the corner. Her mother, Marianne McKee, is an executive secretary and chief of staff for many national and international corporations (including JPL, NME, Leisure Technology, Braun and Co., and others) Her career in business spans six decades.

In her twenties, she lived in Ireland with her husband, the songwriter and music interpreter/musicologist Garrison White, where she continued to write. Taught by Meredith Monk, Karen Finley,and Charlie Haden, her practice includes allusion to memory and lineage. She lives in Los Angeles.