Linda M. Hasselstrom conducts writing retreats in person and by email at Windbreak House Retreats (www.windbreakhouse.com) on her western South Dakota cattle ranch. Her published writing includes fourteen books of nonfiction and poetry and publication in periodicals as diverse as Reader’s Digest, Bloomsbury Review, Orion, High Country News, Saturday Evening Post and Dry Crik Review. To see and hear poetry performances, search YouTube or see those posted on her website. Also see www.Facebook/WindbreakHouse.
Hasselstrom has been resident writer of Windbreak House Writing Retreats, established on her ranch, since 1996. Her most recent book is The Wheel of the Year: A Writer’s Workbook, (Red Dashboard, 2015). Her latest poetry publication is Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet with Nebraska State Poet Twyla M. Hansen (Backwaters Press, 2011) which received the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry, 2012. The book was also a finalist for best poetry book, High Plains Book Awards, Billings, MT, and finalist, WILLA award for poetry, Women Writing the West, both in 2012. She received recognition for Distinguished Service to the Humanities from the South Dakota Humanities Council in 2011 and is special consultant to the Rural Literature R.A. L. L. Y. initiative, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY. She holds an M.A. degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
She writes, “I am a perpetual student of American Western history, culture and ecology. I write to learn.” Her ranch hosts the Great Plains Native Plant Society’s botanic garden for arid grasslands plants.
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