Glinda G. Johnson-Medland

Glinda Johnson-Medland is a published writer and poet who grew up in Connecticut and now resides outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has spent the majority of her career life as a social worker and therapist. She is currently the Executive Director of word hive: a space for poets; a new nonprofit committed to bringing poetry to local communities in the form of workshops, poetry readings and collaboration with other artists. She is currently working on grants and other supports for word hive. She has published poems and articles in a variety of journals beginning in 1985. She has also had her poems published in a book that both Tom and she collected and coedited, published by Wipf and Stock Publishers of Oregon. That volume came out in 2013. It is entitled For the Beauty of The Earth: Poems from the Child-Heart About the Planet, and features both Glinda and Tom's poetry while spotlighting 23 local poets from the Pocono Mountains of PA.