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About Linda Dini Jenkins
Essayist, poet and playwright Linda Dini Jenkins is the author of three full-length books, Becoming Italian: Chapter and Verse from an Italian American Girl, Up at the Villa: Travels with my Husband, and Journey of a Returning Christian: Writing Into God.
Her poetry has been published in a wide range of journals, newspapers and literary magazines, including VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, Vermont Voices, VIA (Voices in Italian Americana), South Florida Poetry Review, Phoebe: A Journal of Feminist Scholarship Theory & Aesthetics, Poeti italo-americani e italo-canadesi, Tampa Review, Ovunque Siamo, Peregrine, Writer to Writer, Color Wheel/Mink Hills Journal, Bay Windows, and the Christmas Blessings anthology.
Linda is also the author of the one-act play, "Things I Never Told My Mother" and is co-author, with Barbara Worton, of the highly acclaimed play, "If I'm Talking, Why Aren't You Listening?"
Who were they, this hybrid family, half-Italian, half-God-knows-what? Who was she? Here, in chapter and verse, is the tale of an Italian-American girl who started out in the suburbs of New York City and writes her way to understanding herself, her family and her place in the world. You don’t have to be Italian to relate–we've all felt like a fraud, dealt with misogyny, regret, and prejudice.
What constitutes travel? Two weeks in a foreign city or a year of Sunday drives? Returning to the places you love or stopping by the side of the road to jump into a unfamiliar creek? Going with your significant other or with a group of acquaintances who become fast friends during the experience? Author Linda Jenkins has done it all in her 17-year marriage to Tim, several years her junior and on a wavelength all his own.
When Tim and I first moved to Boston in 1991, we looked for a church community. Our pastor in Burlington, Vermont, where we got married, told us about this fantastic UCC Church on the corner of Boylston and Dartmouth Streets: Old South Church. If you’re ever watched the Boston Marathon, that’s the big church at the finish line. After a few weeks attending services, we decided to stay.
