Linda Button, or Button, is the winner of The Annie Dillard Prize (Bellingham Review) for non-fiction and a Pushcart Prize nominee Her essays have found homes in The New York Times, Longreads, HuffPost, The Rumpus, Hippocampus, Pangyrus, Cognoscenti and others. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in several anthologies. Recently her work was named finalist in The Rumpus Prize, and The Iowa Review Award.

Button has appeared on PBS in Stories from the Stage; her video has been watched over one million times on Facebook. She is a graduate of Grub Street’s Essay and Memoir Incubators, and a resident at the Vermont Studio Arts, among others. 

She also oversees a large story-writing team at a major children’s hospital. Earlier, she was a principal at an award-winning advertising agency and romped across six continents, speaking on creativity and creating campaigns for television. She lives in New England with her beautiful, sprawling, complicated family. 

She holds a 5th degree black belt in taekwondo. Her memoir, Fight School, explores the relationship between sparring and finding your voice in life.

Photo by Sharona Jacobs