Lynda Riggers writes character-driven fiction about complicated people, difficult choices, and the ways ordinary lives are shaped by extraordinary circumstances.
Her books include Beneath the Canopy, a middle-grade historical novel set in the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden and the Hunger Winter, and The Placeholder. She is also the author of the nonfiction books Voices of Cancer and Voices of LGBTQ+.
A paralegal for more than thirty years, Lynda brings a lifelong fascination with people, their stories, and the complexities beneath what we see on the surface to her writing. Her work has also appeared in Elephants and Tea and Patient Power.
An Idaho native, she writes under the name Lynda Riggers.