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Linda Hogan

Linda Hogan (Chickasaw) is an internationally recognized public speaker and author of poetry, fiction, and essays. Her books include novels Mean Spirit, a winner of the Oklahoma Book Award, the Mountains and Plains Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer; Solar Storms, a finalist for the International Impact Award; and Power (all from W.W.Norton). Her poetry collection The Book of Medicines was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and she has received numerous prestigious awards, grants, and fellowships, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from both the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and Wordcraft Circle. Her nonfiction includes Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Land, and The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir. In addition, she has, with Brenda Peterson, written Sightings: The Mysterious Journey of the Gray Whale for National Geographic Books, edited several anthologies on nature and spirituality, and written the script Everything Has a Spirit, a PBS documentary on American Indian Religious Freedom. Linda has also been involved for thirteen years with the Native Science Dialogues and the new Native American Academy. She is now working for the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma.