Linda Button

Button’s work has found homes in The New York Times, Longreads, HuffPost, The Rumpus, Hippocampus, among others. She explores the complications of love, mental illness, and letting go. Her fiction and non-fiction have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, appeared in several anthologies and Modern Love recently featured her essay in their podcast. Her work has also been named a finalist in The Rumpus Prize and The Iowa Review Award. She is a graduate of Grub Street’s Essay and Memoir Incubators, and attended the Vermont Studio Art residency. Her book-in-progress, Fight Song, was runner-up in Unleash Lit’s 2024 contest and explores how women fight in the midst of heartbreak. She holds an advanced blackbelt in Taekwondo and lives among flowers and bee hives with her life partner and their merged family of grown-up kids.