Linda Hogan, Chickasaw, is an international public speaker, writer, and reader of her works.Her writing contains environmental and indigenous knowledge, science, and illuminates enduring Native spirituality. It appears in numerous anthologies on Nature, Science,Environment, Religious and Animal Studies. She is a Pulitzer Finalist in fiction for Mean Spirit and has many other award-winning books. Some of these include DARK. SWEET. New and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press), Rounding the Human Corners (Coffee House Press, 2008, Pulitzer nominee) and People of the Whale (Norton, August 2008) and one woman play, Indios. Her works also include novels Mean Spirit, (Oklahoma Book Award, the Mountains and Plains Book Award, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize); Solar Storms, (finalist for the International Impact Award and New York Times Notable Book of Year); and Power, (finalist for the International Impact Award).
Earlier, she wrote the script, Everything Has a Spirit, a PBS documentary on American Indian Religious Freedom. With Brenda Peterson, Sightings, The Mysterious Journey of the Gray Whale came out with National Geographic Books. They also edited several anthologies on nature and spirituality. Hogan’s newest poetry is A History of Kindness (Torrey House) which received both Colorado and Oklahoma book awards. Hogan's nonfiction includes a respected collection of essays, including Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World; and The Woman Who Watches Over the World (early memoir): A Native Memoir and recently The Radiant Lives of Animals which received the National Book Foundation Award for Science Literature. Current work is for the Fetzer Institute’s Shared Sacred Stories, a collection of connected spiritual traditions from different and major religions.
Her work has received an American Book Award, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, The Wordcraft Circle, and The Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association. Her recent awards are the 2016 THOREAU PRIZE from PEN, a 2018 Native Arts and Culture Award, the LATimes and Riverside Lifetime and Achievement Award 2022. Hogan was inducted into the Chickasaw Nation Hall of Fame in 2007 for her contributions to indigenous literature. This year (2023) she received an Honorary PhD from the University of Colorado for Humane Letters.