Linda Lombardi
Linda Lombardi is an American writer and editor specializing in animals.
Lombardi worked as an academic linguist at the University of Maryland, College Park and was known for her works on phonology and optimality theory until she quit her tenured job to become an animal keeper.
Books
Animals
The Pit Bull Life, co-authored with Deirdre Franklin, Countryman Press 2016The Lemur's Cry, Wombatarama 2014The Sloth's Eye, Five Star Mysteries 2012Animals Behaving Badly: Boozing Bees, Cheating Chimps, Dogs with Guns, and Other Beastly True Tales, Penguin/Perigee 2011
Linguistics
Laryngeal Features and Laryngeal Neutralization, Garland 1994 Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory, Cambridge University Press 2001