Linda Stewart-Oaten's employment history includes soldering miles of wire to circuit boards in an airplane parts factory and a stint in Public Health, where she learned a lot about rats and even more about the people they live with. She also worked briefly as a carpenter before becoming allergic to sawdust.
She lives in Santa Barbara, California and is currently working on a novel. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published in Kalliope, The Sun, World Wide Writers, Community of Voices Anthology and The Santa Barbara Independent. A short play, "Street Dreams," was produced in 2000.