Linda Rogers is a teacher, children's writer/performer, and multi-award-winning poet obsessed with the human story. She also writes fiction (both adult and juvenile), and has recently expanded into non-fiction. She is Past President of The League of Canadian Poets and has lectured in English and creative writing at the University of British Columbia, Malaspina College, Camosun College, and the University of Victoria.

Praise for Linda Rogers' poetry:

[Rogers'] poetry now is fantastic, angry, compassionate, teased and tortured by memory, and at times overflowing with the human comedy. It places Rogers among our most notable contemporary poets.—George Woodcock

She is one of our finest poets: imaginative, fearless, entertaining, and intelligent.—Charles Lillard

Breaking the Surface
Marilyn Bowering, Lorna Crozier, Susan Musgrave, Linda Rogers, Patricia Young, and introducing fifteen new voices

In this unique book, five acclaimed Canadian poets offer their own superbly crafted new work alongside that of fifteen exciting new voices. Not only inspired reading, Breaking the Surface offers new insights into the poetic imagination of a country internationally renowned for fine writing.

The Broad Canvas
Portraits of Women by Women
with photos byBarbara Pedrick

This richly illustrated book follows the stories of women overcoming pain, politics, and prejudice as they sing, dance, act, write, and paint toward the new millennium. Every story of these mothers of artistic freedom is at once intimate and inspirational. Like Renaissance murals full of contemporary faces, this is a broad canvas of familiar heads talking.

Heaven Cake

The poems in Heaven Cake are at once familial and global, homilies told by a grandmother to the younger generation gathered around her. Linda Rogers has collected people she knows and people she knows about, finding them in poems that turn upon change and life transitions. This is a very rich written tapestry from one of Canada's foremost poets.

Nominated for a 1998-99 Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award. The award is given annually to the author of a work sustaining the tradition of a people's literature in Canada.

"Honesty and vitality combine with a fearless imagination in these poems."

The Saning

The Saning is the sixth book Sono Nis Press has published by Linda Rogers. Her newest book of poetry is written in the belief that our words can still connect us to one another in ways that reveal an ethical system beyond the age of information. The subjects of the poems are living their way to grace. Their acts of courage and compassion are celebrated by a poet who cherishes the small ceremonies that make us human.