Following an Oklahoma girlhood and a high school teaching career in Nebraska, Linda M. Lewis makes her home in Lindsborg, Kansas, where she settled in 1987 to become a professor of composition and British literature at Bethany College. Now retired, she indulges in family time, sleeping late, leisurely lunches, reading poetry, and poetry readings. As professor and literary scholar, she published four books and a number of critical essays on authors Dante and Dickens, Blake and Shelley, George Eliot and George Sand, John Milton and Elizabeth Barrett Browning—among others. She is the author of a poetry collection, Ensemble (Spartan Press, 2019), and has published here and there in various poetry magazines.