Linda Bamber is a fiction writer, poet, and essayist. She is also a Professor of English at Tufts University, where she teaches courses on women’s literature, Buddhism and American poetry, short fiction, etc. Her recent fiction collection, Taking What I Like (David R. Godine), includes re-inventions of six Shakespeare plays, a riff on Jane Eyre, and a fictional look at the work of Thomas Eakins. Her poetry collection, Metropolitan Tang, is also from Godine. Widely reprinted and anthologized, her critical book on Shakespeare, Comic Women, Tragic Men: Gender and Genre in Shakespeare, was published by Stanford University Press. Her work has appeared in such places as The Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Raritan, The Kenyon Review and The New York Times Book Review.
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