BIOGRAPHY
Linda Hogan (b. 1947). A Chickasaw, Hogan was born in Denver, Colorado, and educated at the University of Colorado, where she received her M.A. in 1978. 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. She is now associate professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota.

In 1980, her play, A Piece of Moon, won the Five Civilized Tribes Playwriting Award, and in 1983 she received the Stand magazine fiction award. Her writings include six volumes of poetry, Calling Myself Home (1979), Daughters, I Love You (1981), Eclipse (1983), Seeing Through the Sun (1985), Savings (1991), and The Book of Medicines (1993). Her fiction includes two volumes of short stories and two novels, Mean Spirit (1990) and Solar Storms (1995). Her collection of essays, Dwellings: Reflections on the Natural World (1995), describes her attempts to "relearn the tribal knowings of thousands of years."