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Linda Mahoney was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in the suburb of Norwood. As a child she spent countless hours painting and drawing and eventually studied art in college, attending Greenfield Community College, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received a BFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a major in Painting and a minor in Art History in 1979. In 1992 she received Post Baccalaureate Teacher Certification from Westfield State College. She lives in Northfield, Massachusetts with her husband, and was an art teacher at Stoneleigh-Burnham School for Girls in Greenfield, Massachusetts from 1987 to 2016. She was a painter for over 30 years and in 2007 took a three-day workshop in Moku Hanga, to learn the basics of Japanese Woodblock Printmaking. Gradually over the next two years she developed and refined her skills and understanding of the process and color woodblock printmaking became her primary medium.