Linda Rief teaches 8th grade at Oyster River Middle School in Durham, NH and is an instructor in the University of New Hampshire's Summer Literacy Institute. She is a national and international presenter on issues of adolescent literacy. She is a national and international presenter on issues of adolescent literacy. She is the author of 100 Quickwrites (Scholastic 2003), Inside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook (2007), Seeking Diversity: Language Arts with Adolescents (1992), and Vision and Voice: Extending the Literacy Spectrum (1999), published by Heinemann. She is a co-author of Visual Tools for Differentiating Reading and Writing Instruction (Scholastic, 2008). She is a co-editor (Beers, Probst, and Rief) of Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice (Heinemann 2007) and for five years co-edited with Maureen Barbieri Voices from the Middle, a journal for middle school teachers published by the National Council of Teachers of English.
In 2000 she was the recipient of NCTE's Edwin A. Hoey Award for Outstanding Middle School Educator in the English Language Arts. Her classroom was featured in the series Making Meaning in Literature produced by Maryland Public Television for Annenberg/CPB. For three years she chaired the first Early Adolescence English/Language Arts Committee of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.