Linda Collins Non-Member New

Award-winning poet and memoirist.

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Linda Collins has a poetry collection, Sign Language for the Death of Reason (Math Paper Press) and is the author of a memoir, Loss Adjustment (Ethos Books, Singapore; Awa Press, New Zealand; Beijing Guangchen, China). She is the winner of the Caselberg International Poetry Prize 2026, and was a runner-up in the Mslexia Single Poem Contest, and shortlisted for the Bridport. Her poems have appeared in bath-magg, Lighthouse, and Cordite, among others. Collins has MAs in Creative Writing (with distinction) from the University of East Anglia, and from IIML (International Institute of Modern Letters) in New Zealand. Loss Adjustment was shortlisted for book of the year at the Singapore Book Awards. She is also an essayist, and most recently her personal essay, Galloping at the Estuary, was published by Headland journal, run by Massey University Press.

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