Linda Mcnutt

1966-

Linda Jane McNutt (playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, director, and professor) was born in 1966 in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She attended Mount Allison University for her Bachelor of Arts in drama and English. After graduating in 1988, she worked at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, and applied to the Master of Arts in English and creative writing program at UNB where she completed her degree in 1990. That same year she founded the Fredericton Women's Theatre Collective. Their work was compiled into a single play, Flights, which McNutt edited, and which was later published by Wild East Publications. She also directed the play’s premiere, which was staged in March 1990 at UNB’s Memorial Hall Theatre. The following year, the Women's Theatre Collective wrote another series of plays which were amalgamated into (W)ri(gh)t(e)s.  McNutt staged the production at the same theatre and oversaw the play’s publication by the same press. She also published the short story “The Mayfair Tavern: Then and Now” in The Fiddlehead. McNutt published her novel Summer Point in 1997. McNutt returned to UNB to study Shakespeare, acquiring a PhD in 2004, and worked as an instructor of creative writing and Shakespearean literature at UNB and St. Thomas University (STU). McNutt has also published an essay entitled “Furious Hunger,” which appeared in 2009 in The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning.

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

Fredericton