Linda recently served as Script Consultant for Can I Get a Witness?, (Sleepy Dog Films) writer-director ann-marie fleming’s 2025 award-winning feature film. Linda received CMF funding to create and develop Lunch, a half-hour dramedy series and completed a one-hour pilot for an international limited crime series. She co-produced and co-wrote with Brian McKeown, Human Cargo, CBC’s six-hour dramatic limited series about the impact of war and globalization upon refugees, shooting in Vancouver and South Africa. The series garnered the 2004 Peabody Award, the Robert Wagner Narrative Screenwriting Award from the Columbus International Film and Television Festival, as well as seven Geminis. It was invited to the Rencontres Internationales de Télévision in Reims, France, and sold to 82 countries. Other long-form writing credits include Murder Unveiled (with Brian McKeown), At The End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story, and The Diviners, adapted from Margaret Laurence’s novel. She has written episodes for the half-hour series Airwaves and These Arms of Mine. In 2006, she received the John Simon Guggenheim Award in screen. Her book, Marine Life, was adapted and produced as a feature film.

Linda’s story collection, Marine Life, an LA Times First Book Award nominee, was published in Canada (HarperCollinsCanada), the U.S. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Germany (Residenz Verlag). Marine Life will be republished in 2026 by Archipel (Chinese translation) and Open Road Integrated Media. (US). She’s recently completed a sequel, the novel The Visiting Writer.  Sussex Drive, a political satire, was published by Random House Canada in 2012 and named a CBC Bookie Awards comedy nominee. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Seventeen, Room, Saturday Night, Prairie Schooner, Epoch, Fiddlehead, O. Henry Prize Stories, Best Canadian Stories and other anthologies such as The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English, The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories, I Know Some Things: Stories About Childhood by Contemporary Writers, edited by Lorrie Moore, and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 8th Edition. Linda graduated with her MFA from Columbia University, held the Wallace Stegner Fellowship (Stanford) and the Bunting Fellowship (Radcliffe) and awards from Canada Council and the National Endowment of the Arts. An excerpt from her personal essay, Friends of My Youth, was published by the Toronto Star in July 2025.