On the road

Linnea Heaney enjoys the seasonal changes of the high desert landscape through gardening, painting, and photography. But, she is mostly preoccupied with her writing and reading. Hiking in the shallow, lengthy canyon at her doorstep, she imagines stories around every volcanic boulder and windswept juniper. One of those stories is a picture book manuscript under submission for publication. 

A REAL BEST FRIEND, Linnea’s lyrical picture book story, was published and archived online by Hunger Mountain: the Vermont College of Fine Arts journal. The story earned her PAL status at the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. SCBWI also awarded Linnea an International Conference Scholarship for volunteer efforts. 

Linnea’s WIP middle-grade manuscript is an unsettling adventure into a western landscape. Highlights Hello is her poetry home for the very young, while grown-up poetry is in regional anthologies. She is researching nonfiction picture book topics into the history and nature of favorite parks. With over twenty years of experience in education, Linnea presentations are about emergent literacy, story adventures, and finding voice. 

Linnea’s childhood library

Here are photos of Linnea’s childhood library (to right), one of Linnea’s childhood schools (directly below), and a detail from her Reach Out and Read mural (last photo).

Linnea’s childhood school

Reach Out and Read mural detail (mural photo at SCBWI author page)