Linda M. Hasselstrom is a real South Dakota
rancher who has roamed across miles of
grassland with no company but her horse;
she's been thrown, kicked, stomped, defecated
on and bitten by horses and cows.
Award-winning writer, poet, teacher, writer
writes about contemporary South Dakota as her
work is rooted in the arid landscape.
“A ranch,” she has written, “is not just any patch of
rural ground.
She offers writing retreats at her South Dakota ranch,
Windbreak House. She also offers other assistance
to writers.
for detailed information.
(This venue may or may not be available any longer.)
Listen Up!
Linda M. Hasselstrom, editor, essayist,
and award-winning poet and author.
Linda holds a BA in English and Journalism,
a MA in American Literature, and has been
a teacher of writing for more than
40 years.
The following may or may not still be available.
I had 2 books published in late 2017.
Gathering from the Grassland: A Plains Journal
My first book, Windbreak: A Woman Rancher on the Northern Plains,
written in journal form, covered a year on my family's ranch, telling
the stories of the land, the livestock and wildlife, and the people.
My newest book, also in journal form, revisits that same landscape
thirty years later. I spent a year observing the changing of the seasons
and the daily life of my feathered and furred neighbors. At the same time
I studied the personal journals of my parents and other relatives,
trying to understand their lives from an older-- and wiser-- perspective;
hoping that making sense of the past will allow me to see my way into
the future.
Gathering from the Grassland: A Plains Journal --- High Plains Press, 2017
(320 pages; size 6 x 9)
$19.95 -- paperback
$29.95 -- hardcover
You may purchase a signed copy from me for the cover price plus $4 shipping
Linda M. Hasselstrom
PO Box 169
Hermosa, South Dakota 57744
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Dakota: Bones, Grass, Sky --- Collected and New Poems
The original edition of Dakota Bones: The Collected
Poems of Linda Hasselstrom was published by Spoon
River Poetry Press in 1993. This new and expanded
edition contains all of the original poems plus 50 new
poems-- an accumulation of poems from many years.
In 2011 I published 50 new poems in Dirt Songs: A
Plains Duet with Twyla M. Hansen, now Nebraska’s
Poet Laureate. Some of these poems predate those;
some were published in periodicals but have not
previously appeared in book form.
Dakota: Bones, Grass, Sky – Collected and New Poems ---
Spoon River Poetry Press, 2017
(240 pages; size 5.5 x 8.5)
$14.95 -- paperback
You may purchase a signed copy from me for $14.95
plus $4 shipping
Linda M. Hasselstrom
PO Box 169
Hermosa, South Dakota 57744
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NOW, WHAT ABOUT YOUR WRITING?
Windbreak House Writing Retreats and Online
Writing Conversations by eMail.
If you would like to spend some time writing
for the list of available retreat dates in 2018 and
all the details you need to know about applying
for a writing retreat (working with me) or a
solitary retreat (recharge your creativity and
enjoy uninterrupted writing time).
If you can't take a retreat holiday because your
time or your budget is tight, we can still have
some productive writing fun together online.
details on how to sign up for a Writing
Conversation by eMail
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