Poetry on Lost Street

Linda Neal Reising, a native of Oklahoma and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, has been published in numerous journals, including The Southern Indiana Reivew, The Comstock Review, and Nimrod and a number of anthologies.

She won the 2012 Writer’s Digest Poetry Competition, and her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize four times, as well as being nominated for Best of the Net. She was named the 2024 Official Eclipse Poet of Indiana by Indiana Humanities.

Her first chapbook, Re-Writing Family History (Finishing Line), was a finalist for the 2015 Oklahoma Book Award and winner of the Oklahoma Writing Federation Poetry Book Contest.

Reising’s first full-length collection, The Keeping (Finishing Line), won the 2020 Kops-Fetherling Phoenix Award for Outstanding New Voice in Poetry. Her second, Stone Roses(Kelsay Books), was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award and the WILLA Award, as well as winning the 2022 Eric Hoffer Award and the Western Heritage Wrangler Award.

VIVIA-The Legend of Vivia Thomas: A Novelette in Poems (Kelsay Books), was a finalist for the American Bookfest Poetry Award, the International Book Award, the Person of the Year Award, and the Oklahoma Book Award. It was named a winner of the Human Relations Book Award for Adventure Poetry and Director’s Choice, the Feathered Quill Book Award, the Typesmith Narrative Poetry Award, the Bookfest Narrative Poetry Award, and the Literary Global Book Awards for Poetry and Novelette. Her chapbook, Perpetual Astonishment, won the Beyond Words Chapbook Contest and was published in 2024. Navigation (Kelsay Books), her latest full-length collection, was released in January of 2025. Reising’s first book of fiction, Cigar Box of Loss: Stories from Route 66 is forthcoming from Belle Point Press.