Linda Woodrow

Linda Woodrow is a Coffs Harbour based writer. Linda’s non-fiction book, The Permaculture Home Garden is a permaculture classic. It was published by Penguin in 1996, is still in print and has sold nearly 35,000 copies. Linda was a long-term columnist for the ABC Organic Gardener magazine and has published widely in gardening and permaculture circles. Her long-running blog, The Witches Kitchen has been telling garden and food stories for over 15 years.  

Linda’s first novel, 470, was published by Melliodora Publishing in 2020, and has recently been published as an audiobook.  470 communicates real climate science in the form of a gripping, page-turning love story. It was shortlisted for the Varuna PIP and has been nominated for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. 

Linda has a Research Masters in Creative Writing (Southern Cross University, 2019) with a thesis entitled Imagined Futures: Narrative Fiction and Climate Science.