Lappin was born in Tennessee in 1953. She received a MFA from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in 1978. During her years at Iowa, she specialized in poetry with Florida poet Donald Justice. Her first volume of poetry, Wintering with the Abominable Snowman, was published in 1976 by the avant-garde press, 'kayak,' run by George Hitchcock in Santa Cruz, California.Sims Sandy, Interview with Linda Lappin, The Writer's Chronicle, AWP, March/April 2010, Vol.42, n.5, pp. 50-51.
