Linda Hogan

Short Biography

Linda K. Hogan is a Native American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories. She is currently the Chickasaw Nation's Writer in Residence.Essayist, novelist, and poet, 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 feminist themes, particularly allying them to her Native ancestry. All of her work, whether fiction or non-fiction, displays an indigenous understanding of the world.She has written essays and poems on a variety of subjects, both fictional and nonfictional, biographical and from research. Hogan has also written historical novels. She has at times focused on the historical wrongs done to both Native Americans and the American landscape during the colonisation of North America.Hogan was a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Oklahoma, and is currently the (inaugural) Writer in Residence for the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma.