Authors

Linda Christensen

Oregon WP at Lewis and Clark College

Linda Christensen is a co-director of the Oregon Writing Project at Lewis and Clark College, a language arts coordinator for Portland Public Schools, and a Rethinking Schools editor. She is the author of Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word.

• Other People's Lives: Persona Poems Teach Insight and Empathy
  Rethinking Schools , Vol. 29, No. 3, 2015
• "Hey, Mom, I Forgive You": Teaching the Forgiveness Poem
  Rethinking Schools, 2013
• The Politics of Correction: How We Can Nurture Students in Their Writing
  The Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2003
• Promoting Social Imagination Through Interior Monologues
  The Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2001