Acclaimed author Linda Hasselstrom presented "The Beauty of Responsibility," a reading of her work, on Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 7:30 pm at the CSU Bookstore on the Colorado State University Campus. Hasselstrom also gave a reading of her work entitled “Hunting and Gathering: Literature on the Plains,” in the Community Room of the Sterling Public Library on Friday April 20 at 7:00 pm. She gave a lecture “Writing to See, Seeing to Write,” on Saturday, April 21 at 11:00 also at the Sterling Public Library. Reception and book signing followed each event. Free and open to the public.
Linda M. Hasselstrom is an award-winning poet and writer of the High Plains whose work is rooted in the arid landscape of southwestern South Dakota. Although she winters in Wyoming, Linda returns each year to South Dakota, where she writes, ranches, conducts writing retreats, and hosts a botanic garden on the ranch homesteaded by her grandfather, a Swedish cobbler, in 1899.
Linda’s non-fiction includes Between Grass and Sky, Feels Like Far, Land Circle, Going Over East, Windbreak, and Bison: Monarch of the Plains. Her poetry books include Bitter Creek Junction and Dakota Bones. Linda was also a co-editor, with Nancy Curtis and Gaydell Collier, of the western women's anthologies Leaning into the Wind, Woven on the Wind, and Crazy Woman Creek.
Linda Hasselstrom's work will soon be available at the CSU Bookstore.