Out of the Shadows

“This book should be read by everyone who has adopted a child, as our family has. To say that love conquers all is not enough when the day-to-day work of building a family tests love as well as courage and what we thought we knew of our own capacity of patience. If it sounds impossible, it isn’t. Linda Back McKay shows us the human capacity to love is our best gift.” -Laura Waterman Wittstock, retired nonprofit executive, author, parent, and grandparent

Linda Back McKay Linda Back McKay is a poet, writer, coach, and teaching artist. She teaches classes at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, MN and edits poetry and prose manuscripts for individual clients. Her work has appeared in literary publications such as Great River Review, Water~Stone Review, White Pelican Review, To Sing Along the Way, and 33 Minnesota Poets. She is a recipient of several awards and residency fellowships from the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and Norcroft. McKay is author of the groundbreaking nonfiction work, Shadow Mothers: Stories of Adoption and Reunion (North Star Press). That book was inspiration for the play Watermelon Hill, which was produced by the History Theatre in St. Paul, MN. Her poetry collections include The Cockeyed Precision of Time (White Space Press) and The Next Best Thing (Nodin Press). She lives by the Mississippi River with David McKay and a fast red Harley-Davidson motorcycle. McKay’s next book will be a “motorcycle memoir.” Visit www.lindabackmckay.com