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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. WW Norton is her publisher. Her poetry, The Book of Medicines was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other poetry has received the Colorado Book Award, Minnesota State Arts Grant, an American Book Award, and a prestigious Lannan Fellowship. In addition, she has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim, and 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 with the Native Science Dialogues and the new Native American Academy. She has received the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association and has been inducted into the Chickasaw Hall of Fame.