About Linda Buturian

      Bio, Selected Publications, and Good Links

BRIEFLY

Linda Buturian, her family, and three other families live along the wild Rum River.  She snatches words from milkweed pods and trumpet-calls of cranes. Her thoughts have sprouted in Utne Reader and anthologies, Life in Body, Shouts and Whispers, and Sweet Jesus: Poems about the Ultimate Icon. Linda teaches humanities for the University of Minnesota. She earned a Bachelors in English from Wheaton College, and a Masters in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati. Buturian’s first book, a collection of essays titled, World Gone Beautiful: Life Along the Rum River, was published in August 2008 by Cathedral Hill Press (the Little Press that Could) in St. Paul, Minnesota.  Linda is currently at work on her first novel.

 

 

Good Links

Celeste Nelms, Visual Artist 

Nopointink artists 

International Crane Foundation

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Non-fiction

World Gone Beautiful: Life Along the Rum River. Cathedral Hill Press, St. Paul, MN, May 2008.

Essay, “Great Bird”, OE Journal, Ashland, OR, Spring 2007.
 

Commentary, “Life at Hippie Hollow.” KFAI Radio Show-MOMbo, Minneapolis, MN, 
Feb. 13, 2002.
 

Essay, “Fiber Matters.” Utne Reader, Minneapolis, MN, Nov.-Dec., 1997.


Personal narrative, “Beyond the Bale.” Utne Reader, Minneapolis, MN, Sept.-Oct., 1997.

Fiction

Novel chapter, “Ruby” Life in Body anthology. Cathedral Hill
Press, St. Paul, MN, 2004.
 

Short story, "Ready to Fly."  Evil Dog. Cincinnati, OH, Winter 1996.
 

Short stories, "ad matai" and "A Big Problem." Animal Eye Magazine. Cincinnati, OH,
     Spring 1995.

Interviews

Anne Lamott and Kathleen Norris, Shouts and Whispers: Twenty-One Writers Speak About Their Writing and Their Faith. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, March 2006. 

Anne Lamott, Utne Reader, Minneapolis, MN, May-June, 1999.