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Linda Hogan
Hogan in 2007
Born	(1947-07-16) July 16, 1947 (age 77) [1] Denver, Colorado, U.S.[1]
Occupation	Author, professor[1]
Education	University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (BA) University of Colorado, Boulder (MA)
Genre	Poetry
Years active	1978–present
Children	2
Website
LindaHoganWriter.com

Linda K. Hogan (née Henderson, born July 16, 1947) is an American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories.^[2] She previously served as the Chickasaw Nation's writer in residence.^[3] Hogan is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.^[4]

Linda Hogan was born July 16, 1947, in Denver, Colorado.^[5] Her father, Charles C. Henderson, is a Chickasaw from a recognized historical family.^[6] Her mother, Cleona Florine (Bower) Henderson was of white descent.^[2] Linda's uncle, Wesley Henderson, helped form the White Buffalo Council in Denver during the 1950s,^[7] to help other Native American people coming to the city because of The Relocation Act, which forcibly removed Indigenous peoples for work and other opportunities.

Hogan earned a Master of Arts (M. A.) degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1978.^[8] She was a full professor of Creative Writing at the University of Colorado and then taught for two years in the university's Ethnic Studies Department.^[9] She has been a speaker at the United Nations Forum ^{[citation needed]} and was a plenary speaker at the Environmental Literature Conference in Turkey in 2009. ^{[citation needed]} Her most recent teaching has been as Writer in Residence for The Chickasaw Nation for six years,^[10] and a faculty position at the Indian Arts Institute in Santa Fe. ^{[citation needed]}

Hogan has worked across various genres, such as poetry, novel-length fiction, short fiction, and nature essays. She has also written nonfiction essays for environmental organizations like The Nature Conservancy and the Sierra Club.^[11] In 2015, Hogan worked with Brenda Peterson on, Sightings, the Mysterious Journey of the Gray Whale for National Geographic books. She also wrote the script for the PBS documentary, Everything Has a Spirit, regarding Native American religious freedom.^[12]

Hogan married Pat Hogan and has two children. ^{[citation needed]}

• Five Civilized Tribes Play Writing Award, 1980
• Stand magazine Fiction Award, 1983
• American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 1986
• Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1991
• Guggenheim Fellow, 1991^[13]
• Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction for Mean Spirit, 1991
• Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Book of Medicines, 1993^[14][15]
• Colorado Book Award for The Book of Medicines, 1993
• Lannan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry, 1994
• Colorado Book Award for Solar Storms, 1996
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, 1998
• Writer of the Year (Creative Prose), Wordcraft Circle Award, 2002
• Inducted into the Chickasaw Hall of Fame, 2007^[16]
• Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellowship, 2015^[17]
• Thoreau Prize from PEN, 2016^[18]

• Calling Myself Home, Greenfield Review Press, 1978
• A Piece of Moon, 1981
• Daughters, I Love You, Research Center on Women, 1981
• Eclipse, American Indian Studies Center, University of California, 1983, ISBN 978-0-935626-18-6
• Seeing Through the Sun. University of Massachusetts Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-87023-472-9. Linda Hogan.
• Savings: Poems. Coffee House Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-918273-41-3. Linda Hogan.
• Mean Spirit, Atheneum, 1990, ISBN 978-0-689-12101-2
• Red Clay: Poems and Stories, Greenfield Review Press, 1991, ISBN 978-0-912678-83-2
• The book of medicines: poems, Coffee House Press, 1993, ISBN 978-1-56689-010-6
• Solar Storms. Scribner. 1995. ISBN 978-0-684-81227-4.; Simon and Schuster, 1997, ISBN 978-0-684-82539-7
• Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World. W.W. Norton. 1995. ISBN 978-0-393-03784-5.; Simon and Schuster, 1996, ISBN 978-0-684-83033-9
• Power. W. W. Norton & Company. 1998. ISBN 978-0-393-04636-6.; W. W. Norton & Company, 1999, ISBN 978-0-393-31968-2
• The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women and the Green World, 2000; North Point Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-86547-559-5
• The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir. W.W. Norton. 2001. ISBN 978-0-393-05018-9.; W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, ISBN 978-0-393-32305-4
• Rounding the Human Corners: Poems, Coffee House Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-56689-210-0
• People of the Whale: A Novel; W. W. Norton & Company, 2009, ISBN 978-0-393-33534-7
• The Inner Journey: Views from Native Traditions (ed.) Morning Light Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59675-026-5
• Indios, poems, Wings Press, 2012
• Dark, Sweet: New and Selected Poems, Coffee House Press, 2014

• Dennis, Helen M. Native American Literature: Towards a Spatialized Reading. London, Routledge 2006. pp. 61–85.

• Melissa Tuckey, ed. Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press, 2018.

• List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
• Native American Renaissance
• Native American Studies

• Bibliography and links to other online resources
• Page containing an audio clip of Hogan reading
• Profile at "Writers on the Edge"
• Linda Hogan's web page
• In Depth interview with Hogan, July 3, 2011