Writer

     Linda Hussa, rancher, writer and artist, was born in eastern Oregon, the daughter of well-known horse trainers who taught her to love and respect the companionship of horses at a very young age. Ms. Hussa is the author of six books of prose and poetry.  She is the winner of the 1999 Nevada Writer's Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award, three awards for best poetry in 2002, and has been a featured author at the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada from 1991 to 2005.  She gave a reading before the Library of Congress in1994, and in 2005 read her work for First Lady, Laura Bush in Washington, D.C.
   
    Her poetic voice speaks about the region she lives in and the people whose lives are shaped by this environment. Her themes are drawn from the isolated nature of ranching, the commitment to rural communities, and to the natural community of the desert landscape.
Her work includes books of poetry:Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields, Winner of the 2002 “Wrangler” from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum; “Spur” from Western Writers of America; and the “Willa Cather” award from Women Writing the West; Ride The Silence; Where The Wind Lives and non-fiction:  Sharing Fencelines;  Lige Langston: Sweet Iron; Diary of a Cow Camp Cook as well as magazine articles in “Western Horseman” and other periodicals.