San Francisco Bay area poet and writer Linda Drattell is the newest client for Now Hear This, it was announced today. Deafened in her thirties, she is also an advocate for the deaf and hard of hearing.
“It means a lot to me that Linda has chosen Now Hear This,” said company president Bruce Wawrzyniak. “In a very short of amount of time I’ve been able to witness a sincere commitment from her to all the writing that she’s doing and I’m grateful to be a part of those efforts going forward. I very much look forward to working for and with her.”
Drattell has completed a full-length fiction novel that she is currently working to get published. In addition, she has a chapbook, called, “Remember This Day,” that is in production for release in 2023.
“I'm very excited to be working with Bruce and the Now Hear This team,” Drattell said. “Bruce has expressed a strong commitment to the success of my writing, which is reflected in both the quick turnaround time and quality of his recommendations.”
Drattell’s poetry has appeared in both online publications and anthologies, including Prompt for the Press; Viewless Wings; Wingless Dreamer’s Field of Black Roses, Vanish in Poetry, and Ink the Universe anthologies; and Las Positas College’s Havik anthology. Recently, her poem, “The Torrent and the Tree,” was displayed in the City of Dublin, California, Poetry Walk for National Poetry Month (April 2022).
In addition, through articles in newsletters, magazines, and in an anthology, she has chronicled the process of relearning how to navigate social, professional, and family relationships as a result of her hearing loss.
She serves on the boards of both the California Communications Access Foundation and the California Writers Club/Tri-Valley Writers Branch.
Drattell has lived and worked in three world capitals on three continents and draws from her lifetime of experiences to inform her writing. She earned a bachelor’s degree in social work from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an MBA from the American University in Washington, D.C. A long-distance runner, writing has helped her overcome trauma; caught in the middle of a terror attack in 2016 in Nice, France, writing enabled her to process that event’s impact on her life.
Find more at www.LindaDrattell.com, including a link to follow her on Twitter.