Performance-Poet, writer and picture maker Linda Joy Burke is a 2013 Howard County Women’s Hall of Fame inductee, contributing editor to Little Patuxent Review Literary and Art anthology and a Co-host of the Wilde Reading Series in Columbia MD.  Burke’s poetry has appeared in numerous publications including: The Little Patuxent Review, Obsidian II Black Literature in Review, Beltway: An On-Line Quarterly¸Gargoyle 54, When Divas Laugh: the Diva Squad Poetry Collective, and Fledgling Rag. She has performed and given readings or talks sponsored by: HoCoPoLitSo, Columbia Festival of the Arts, The Baltimore Book Festival, Baltimore’s Artscape, The Little Patuxent Review, The Howard County and Enoch Pratt Free Libraries and numerous other venues.