Linda Hogan
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Linda Hogan, Chickasaw poet & novelist
Linda Hogan, Chickasaw, (b. July 16, 1947) is a poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories. Hogan grew up in a military family and therefore moved often, with most of her childhood spent in Oklahoma and Colorado. As a result, she did not grow up within an Indian community. Linda has a Masters degree in English and Creative Writing from the University of Colorado.
For a time, she supported herself with odd jobs and free-lance writing. By 1980, her success as a writer led to her appointment as writer-in-residence for the states of Colorado and Oklahoma. In 1982 she became an assistant professor in the TRIBES program at Colorado College, Colorado Springs after which an she became associate professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. She then moved to the University of Colorado as a professor in the English Department until she left that position to write full time a few years ago.
She has served on the National Endowment for the Arts poetry panel for two years and has been involved in wildlife rehabilitation as a volunteer.
Published work
Hogan has published works in many different backgrounds and forms. Her concentration is on environmental themes (she has acted as a consultant in bringing together Native tribal representatives and environmental campaigners) and feminist themes, particularly allying them to her Native ancestry. The main focus and movement of Linda's work concerns the traditional indigenous view of and relationship to the land, animals and plants. All of her work, whether fiction or non-fiction, displays a holistic understanding of the world.
Hogan has also written historical novels that focus on the historical wrongs done to both Native Americans and the American landscape during the colonisation of North America.
Awards
Linda has recently received a 2002 Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year Creative Prose: Memoir for The Woman Who Watches Over The World: A Native Memoir. In July 1998, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas. Linda received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1986 for Seeing Through the Sun.
She received the Colorado Book Award in 1993 for The Book of Medicines, and in 1996 for Solar Storms. In 1994, Linda received the prestigious Lannan Award, which may not be applied for, for outstanding achievement in poetry. She has also received a Guggenheim grant, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Oklahoma Book Award for fiction in 1991 for her novel Mean Spirit, a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for fiction, a Pushcart Prize, the D'Arcy McNickle Tribal Historian Fellowship by the Newberry Library, Chicago, and the Five Civilized Tribes Museum Playwriting Award. The Book of Medicines was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1994. Mean Spirit was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer in 1990. Hogan has also been honored with the Outstanding Young Woman of the Year Award, for Community Service in 1980. Linda's short story "Aunt Moon's Young Man" was featured in Best American Short Stories (1989).
Writing Available Online
Common people, like squirrel and sparrow from Intimate Nature: the Bond Between Women and Animals
Deer Dance in the American Poetry Review
For Life's Sake on the Dept. of State website.
Books by Linda Hogan
Poetry
The Book of Medicines: Poems, Coffeehouse Press.
- Annotations and Commentary on Tear in the Literature, Arta and Medicine Database
Red Clay: Poems and Stories, Greenfield Review Press.
- This books contains Calling Myself Home and That Horse
That Horse, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico: Pueblo of Acoma Press
Savings, Coffeehouse Press.
Eclipse, Bookpeople
Seeing Through the Sun (Juniper Prize), Univ of Massachusetts Press.
Calling Myself Home, Greenfield Review Press, N.Y. 1979, 2nd Edition 1982.
Daughters, I Love You, Loretto Heights Monograph Series, Denver, CO, 1981.
Prose
Sightings: The Gray Whales' Mysterious Journey, with Brenda Peterson, National Geographic Society.
Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir, Norton.
Power, Norton.
- Publisher's catalog entry for Power
Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World, Touchstone Books
Mean Spirit, Ivy Books
Solar Storms: A Novel, Scribner.
The Stories We Hold Secret: Tales of Women's Spirtual Development, with Carol Bruchac and Judith McDaniel, Greenfield Review Press.
Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals, with Brenda Peterson and Deena Metzger, Ballantine & Random House
Plays
A Piece of Moon, Produced Fall 1981, Okla. State University.
Everything Has a Spirit, narrative for video which has shown on PBS.
Anthologies
Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: Breaking the Great Silence of the American Indian Holocaust. MariJo Moore (Editor), Thunder's Mouth Pr.
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002, Ishmael Reed (Editor), Thunder's Mouth Press.
Without Reservation: Indigenous Erotica, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm (Editor), Kegedonce Press.
Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Josie Douglas (Editors), Kegedonce Press.
Women and God, Linda Hogan, Brenda Peterson (Editors), North Point Press.
The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World, Linda Hogan, Brenda Peterson (Editors), North Point Press.
Getting over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest, Scott Slovic (Editor), Univ. AZ Press.
Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings After the Detours, Diane Glancy, Mark Nowak (Editors), Coffeehouse Press.
Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race, Jim Daniels (Editor), Wayne State Univ. Press.
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writing of North America, Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird (Editors), W.W. Norton.
She Rises Like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets, Janine Canan (Editor), Crossing Press.
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar (Editors), W. W. Norton.
Home Places: Contemporary Native American Writing from Sun Tracks (Sun Tracks, Vol 31), Larry Evers, Ofelia Zepeda (Editors), Univ of Arizona Press.
A Circle of Nations: Voices and Visions of American Indians, John Gattuso (Editor), Beyond Words Publishing Co.
Columbus & Beyond: Views from Native Americans, Southwest Parks & Monuments.
Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, Maria M. Gillan, Jennifer Gillan (Editors), Penguin USA
Smoke Rising: The Native North American Literary Companion, Janet Witalec, Visible Ink Press.
Durable Breath: Contemporary Native American Poetry, John E. Smelcer, D. L. Birchfield (Editors), Salmon Run Pub.
Storming Heaven's Gate: An Anthology of Spiritual Writings by Women, Amber Coverdale Sumrall & Patrice Vecchione, Plume/Penguin Books.
Claiming the Spirit Within: A Sourcebook of Women's Poetry, Marilyn Sewell (Editor)
Song of the Turtle: American Indian Fiction 1974-1994, Paula Gunn Allen (Editor), Ballantine Books.
Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of the Southwest, Kathryn Wilder (Editor), Northland Pub.
Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women, Paula Gunn Allen, Fawcett Books
New Writers of the Purple Sage: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Writing, Russell Martin, Penguin USA
Wounds Beneath the Flesh, Maurice Kenny (Editor), White Pine Press.
Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories, Craig Lesley, Katheryn Stavrakis (Editor) Dell Books
Earth Power Coming: Short Fiction in Native American Literature, Ed. by Simon J. Ortiz, Navajo Community College Press
The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature, Geary Hobson (Editor), Univ of New Mexico Press
That's What She Said: Contemporary Poetry and Fiction by Native American Women, Rayna Green (Editor) Indiana Univ Press
Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: An Anthology of Poetry by American Indian Writers, Joseph Bruchac (Editor), Greenfield Review Press
Harper's Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry, Duane Niatum (Editor) HarperCollins
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature, Lorraine Anderson (Editor), Vintage Books.
Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places, Joseph Barbato, Lisa Weinerman (Editors), Barry Lopez (Introduction)
Growing Up Female: Stories by Women Writers from the American Mosaic, Susan Cahill (Editor)
Beacon Book of Essays by Contemporary American Women, Wendy Martin (Editor)
Point Riders Great Plains Poetry Anthology, Arn Henderson and Frank Parman, (Editors), Point Riders Press.
American Nature Writing 1994, John A. Murray, Editor, Sierra Club Books.
The Best American Short Stories, 1989, Margaret Atwood, Shannon Ravenel (Editors), Houghton Mifflin Co.
Interviews with Linda and/or Essays on her Work
From the Center of Tradition: Critical Perspectives on Linda Hogan, Barbara J. Cook (Editor), Univ. Colorado Press.
The Nature of Native American Poetry, Norma C. Wilson, Univ. New Mexico Press.
Linda Hogan, a special edition edited by John Purdy, Studies in American Indian Literatures, Volume 11, Number 4, Winter 1999, including:
- The Terrestrial and Aquatic Intelligence of Linda Hogan, Donelle N. Dreeser
- Linda Hogan's Tribal Imperative: Collapsing Space Through "Living" Tribal Traditions and Nature, Melani Bleck
- The Politics of Border in Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit, Yonka Kronmova Krasneva
The Story is brimming around: an interview with Linda Hogan, SAIL, 2.3, 1990
Native American Writers of the United States, (Dictionary of Literary Biography, V. 175), Kenneth M. Roemer (Editor), Gale Research.
Survival This Way: Interviews With American Indian Poets, Joseph Bruchac III (Editor), (Sun Tracks Books, No 15) University of Arizona Press
I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, Brian Swann, Arnold Krupat, Brompton Books Corp.
The Writer on Her Work, Janet Sternberg, Editor, Norton.
Listening to the Land: Conversations About Nature, Culture, and Eros, Derrick Jensen, Editor, Sierra Club Books.
Hogan exposes Native history in her storytelling fiction from the Printed Word
Of Panthers and People, John A Murray interviews Linda
Holding the World in Balance, an interview with Linda Hogan
Textbooks
Approaching Poetry: Perspectives and Responses, Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl, St. Martin's Press.
See Also
Voices from the Gaps page on Linda Hogan
Linda's plays are archived in the Native American Women Playwrights Archive
Linda Hogan Giving A New Generation What She Didn’t Have by Layli Long Soldier in the IAIA Chronicle
Biographical information from enotes.com
A short biography from the Internet Public Library's Native American Authors Project.
This page is part of the Storytellers: Native American Authors Online project.
