Linda Niemann has been a conductor, brakeman, and switchman on the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, and AMTRAK railroads for twenty years Ph.D. (University of California-Berkeley), Assistant Professor of English, teaches creative nonfiction and is the author of two books: On the Rails (previously titled Boomer: Railroad Memoirs) and Railroad Voices. These nonfiction works chronicle her twenty-year career as a railroad freight conductor. In addition, she has published feature essays, reviews, interviews, and anthologized stories. For many years, she has been interested in Mesoamerican culture and has traveled to Central America as a tourist, student, scholar, and teacher. She is currently working on a travel book about Mexico. Currently, she lives in Marietta, Georgia and teaches creative nonfiction at Kennesaw State University.

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