Surviving & Thriving Series: Lessons from the Sea
Linda Greenlaw is a lifelong commercial fisherman and
America's only female swordfishing captain. She is the author of
three New York Times bestselling books about life as
a commercial fisherman: The Hungry Ocean (1999),
The Lobster Chronicles (2002) and All Fishermen
Are Liars (2004). Additionally, Greenlaw has written two
mysteries: Slipknot (2007) and Fisherman's Bend
(2008). Seaworthy: A Swordfish Boat Captain Returns to The
Sea (2010) is a chronicle of her return to swordfishing
after ten years as a lobsterman and marks her return to
non-fiction. Her latest published work is Lifesaving Lessons:
Notes From An Accidental Mother (2013); a nonfiction
account of Greenlaw's becoming the legal guardian of a troubled
teen. Greenlaw is the winner of the U.S. Maritime literature award
in 2003 and the New England Book Award for nonfiction in 2004. She
has appeared on Good Morning America, Today, CBS
Sunday Morning, The Martha Stewart Show, and
National Public Radio. Greenlaw first came to the public's
attention in Sebastian Junger's book The Perfect Storm,
where Junger called her "one of the best captains, period, on the
entire east coast." She was featured on the hit Discovery Channel
series Swords: Life on the Line. Swords premiered in
August 2009 and ran for three consecutive seasons. In 2011,
Greenlaw worked as a consultant for the Kenyan Government and a
Dubai based company establishing baseline fisheries resource
statistics off the coast of Kenya and Somalia. She operates a
custom boat shop, works on a mystery series, and fishes for lobster
and halibut. Greenlaw is a member of the Olympia Snowe Women's
Leadership Institute's advisory board.