Experience
Linda is an award-winning Japanese American writer and editor based in Syracuse, New York. A book reviewer for Publishers Weekly and BlueInk Review, she has written for MSN.com and produced more than 2,500 pieces of original content for About.com. She won an EMMA (Exceptional Merit in Media Award) from the National Women’s Political Caucus for her 2008 coverage of Sarah Palin.
Linda’s nonfiction essays have been published in the New York Times, the anthology Tiny Love Stories, Writing That Gets Noticed and The Writer magazine, among others. She is also the author of two travel guidebooks, 100 Things to Do in Syracuse Before You Die and Secret Syracuse: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure; a third, Unique Eats and Eateries of Syracuse, will hit shelves in 2026.
She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, the American Theatre Critics/Journalists Association and the Authors Guild.
