Linda Summersea earned a BFA and MFA from the University of Massachusetts. She enjoyed a long career as a teacher and arts administrator working with Youth-at-Risk in Massachusetts and Arkansas public schools without realizing that she, too, had been a Youth-at-Risk.
While creating and implementing teaching residencies for museums and community centers, she began submitting her writing with a piece on NPR’s Tales from the South and various online periodicals.
Summersea’s first television endeavor was creating, producing, and hosting ArtBreak, an award-winning Art program for children on Community Access Television in Fayetteville, AR. Her first radio production was a radio narrative re: her disabled Vietnam Vet husband’s experiences in ‘Nam for Voice of Vashon (WA) radio KVSH 101.9.
At the age of 67, Summersea discovered her passion in expedition hiking by walking 50 miles in the Moroccan desert with Berber nomads, followed by uncharted adventures in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, and Jordan, on which she writes and lectures.
