A graduate of Kennesaw State University, she began her National Writing Project participation in 1995 with the Making American Literatures project. During her six-year experience with the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project, Linda worked on a Rural Sites Network Project for two years. She has given workshops at NCTE, GCTE, and the RSNC, sharing her classroom projects with other teachers. Currently, she teaches ninth, tenth, and twelfth grade English at East Paulding High School in Dallas, Georgia.