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Mardi Jo Link

Born: 12/03/1961   Detroit , MI
Parents: Charles H. and J. Marylyn Link
Children: Owen, Luke and Will
Address(es):
Permanent :
1122 Three Mile Road North
Traverse City , MI 49686
Contact Information:
Phone : (231) 946-2119
Phone : (231) 883-2256
Email : [email protected]
Website : http://www.mardijolink.com
Twitter : @mardilink
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Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
The Drummond Girls : a story of fierce friendship beyond time and chance Biography , Michigan Adult New York : Grand Central Publishing 2015
Image of Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
- Memoir of a mother who, after ending her nineteen-year marriage, staves off a perpetually empty bank account and, with the help of her three young sons, saves her century-old farmhouse from foreclosure, and reclaims her life on to what matters most. Michigan Notable Book: 2014. 		Biography , Michigan Adult New York : Alfred A. Knopf 2013
Wicked Takes the Witness Stand : A Woman, a Lie, and Five Innocent Men Michigan , True Crime Adult Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press 2013
Image of Isadore's Secret Isadore's Secret
- Michigan Notable Book, 2010 		Non Fiction , Michigan , True Crime Adult Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press 2009
Image of When Evil Came to Good Hart When Evil Came to Good Hart
- A new look into an old story—the cold-case file of the murders of a wealthy Detroit-area family in their northern Michigan cabin in 1968. 		Michigan , True Crime Adult Ann Arbor, MI : The University of Michigan Press 2008
Inside the best sellers
- Author, Jerrold R. Jenkins with Mardi Link 		Non Fiction Adult Traverse City, Mich. : Rhodes & Easton 1997
What is the aim or goal of your writing: I write because I have to. If I didn't, I would have picked something easier! What success I have had is due to a life of voracious reading beginning at an early age, and to a curious and resourceful nature.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: Yes

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Awards:

Name Date
Michigan Notable Book for Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Farm 2014
Pushcart nomination for Bootstrapper 2013
Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association (GLIBA) Booksellers Choice Award for Bootstrapper. 2013
Michigan Notable Book Award for Isadore's Secret 2010
Great Lakes, Great Read Award 2010

Memberships:

Name Date
American Society of Journalists & Authors
Society of Midland Writers
Michigan Writers

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Masters of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Creative Nonfiction Queens University of Charlotte Charlotte , NC 2014
Bachelor of Science (BS) in Journalism Michigan State University East Lansing , MI 1984

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Memoir Instructor Bear River Writers' Conference Camp Michigania, Walloon Lake , MI 2014
Currently I am a working writer, with no other employment.
The editor of two book review magazines Small Press Magazine and ForeWord Magazine Traverse City , MI
Police Reporter Foster’s Daily Democrat Dover

Other Resources:

MeLCat Links:
http://elibrary.mel.org/search/a?searchtype=a&searcharg=link%2C+mardi&SORT=D&searchscope=15

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