Linda Cordell earned her MFA in Ceramics from the Louisiana State University, and her BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.  Linda has been teaching Ceramics classes at PennWest Edinboro since 2004.

Cordell has been an Artist in Residence at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Her work has been exhibited internationally. Cordell is a 1998 recipient of an Evelyn Shapiro Foundation Fellowship and a 2003 Pew Fellowship in the Arts in the category of crafts.