Linda Carney-Goodrich is a writer and teacher from Hyde Park. She is the founder of Home Scholars of Boston and Poetry Coordinator at the Menino Arts Center in Hyde Park. Her poems have been displayed at Boston City Hall as part of the Boston Mayor’s Poetry Program and have been published in journals such as Lily Poetry Review, spoKe 12, The MacGuffin, Solstice Lit, Gyroscope Review, Literary Mama, Amethyst Review and more. Her book, Dot Girl (Nixes Mate) was a finalist for New England Poetry Club’s 2024 Sheila Margaret Motton Prize. Linda is a recent recipient of Artist Opportunity Grants from the City of Boston and residencies from TS Eliot House and Croma Space. She has a Masters in Education from Harvard University and is currently a teaching fellow and candidate for MFA in poetry at Boston University.
Recording of The PoemWorks reading from March 7th, 2025
Linda is owner and operator of Home Scholars of Boston, through which she offers small classes, private tutoring, and educational consulting. She has a Masters in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education where she studied both Arts in Education and Human Development/ Psychology. Her undergraduate degree is a Bachelors of Science in Human Services from Springfield College of Human Services where she focused on how the arts foster resilience and developed the Writing For Our Lives Project, which is a creative writing and drama program for women in domestic violence shelters.
Her one person shows include The Secret Childhood Diary of a Welfare Mother and My Life in Barbie.
Her collection of poetry is now available for purchase at Nixes Mate
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Creator of Home Scholars of Boston
Series Coordinator for Poetry Readings at the Menino Art Center
