Linda Trichter Metcalf, originator of Proprioceptive Writing® and co-author with Tobin Simon of Writing the Mind Alive: The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice, has pioneered writing as a way to heighten consciousness through inner hearing for the last 45 years. She graduated from the City College of New York and received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English Literature from New York University.

In the mid-1970s, while teaching at Pratt Institute, she created the practice now known as Proprioceptive Writing® (PW) to help students express their deepest thoughts and feelings. With Tobin Simon, she left academia and co-founded the Proprioceptive Writing Center where she teaches PW and as Head of Faculty, directs the PW teacher-training program.

Read more about Linda in The History of PW.