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Linda Vi Vona is a professional artist, graphic designer and illustrator with a wide range of styles from figurative to abstract in various media. After studying at Cooper Union, and the Academic di Belle Arte, Florence, she took her B.S. at Brooklyn College and studied at the Boston Museum School. A native of Long Island, she lived and exhibited in New York for many years, until recently moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico. She comes from a family of artists, a tradition that carries on with both of her children. You can find out more about her work at www.vivona.net

 Her fine line pen and ink drawings for the feral press include:

•  Bumming for Grub, John Digby’s adaptation of a poem by Tao Chi’en (2007)
•  A Place of Shade, a collection of poems by E. F. Weisslitz (Fall 2007)
•  Poems, by Adélia Prado translated Flavia M. Lobo (Spring 2008), 8 ½” x 5 ½” Bilingual booklet of four poems with cover and 5 illustrations by Linda Vi Vona.
• Five Sons: Fruits From the Old Tree, an improvisation from T'ao Ch'ien by John Digby 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" (2008)
• We Can Discuss Loneliness: two poems adapted from Tu Fu and Po Chu-I by John Digby, with cover and  six illustrations by Linda Vivona (2008)
• Their Hunger is Great, two poems by Diane Lutz (Summer 2008)
• Pausing at the Border, 5 Chinese adaptations by John Digby (Summer 2008)
•  Nostos, Diane Simone-Lutz poem (2009)
•  38^th Summer, Diane Simone-Lutz poem (2009)
•  this before, Kimberly Southwick’s farthing card poem (Spring 2009)
• To Wang Lun, Master Brewer (October 2009) poem by Li Po adapted by John Digby

Gallery of Work