Linda Harris Dolan is a poet and teaching artist currently based on unceded Canarsee Lenape land in Brooklyn.

As Poetry Instructor at NYU Langone Medical Center, Linda leads writing sessions with nurses, medical students, caregivers, and pediatric patients. Linda guides participants through writing prompts that create a structure for processing and for imagining, that encourage individuality to blossom, and that allow for multiple points of entry, seriousness or play, and vulnerability. She empowers healthcare workers, patients, and caregivers to encounter the transformative power of writing and to become authors in the midst of situations they can’t control.

Linda is Assistant Poetry Editor at Bellevue Literary Review.

Linda holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University, where she was a Starworks Creative Writing Fellow. She holds an M.A. in English & American Literature, focusing on the Postcolonial, also from New York University, She has taught writing at Rutgers University, The King's College, and New York University. She is former Poetry Editor of Washington Square Review. Her editorial work has spanned content and copy editing for corporate clients and individual authors. Linda’s poems are published widely, and she is the recipient of fellowship support from The Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Starlight Foundation, and the Ruth Stone House.

Linda’s poetry circles questions of genetic illness, life in the disabled body, and the ways in which we are made and remade through sickness, loss, and caregiving. She’s particularly interested in the poetry that arises from our individual and communal vernaculars, and she helps students find the poetry that’s within their own everyday cadences and voices.