Linda Hogan is a Chickasaw poet, novelist, essayist, teacher, and activist. Her work illuminates environmental and Indigenous activism, as well as Native spirituality. Her literary works have earned her a National Endowment of the Arts award, a Guggenheim, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of America, the Thoreau Prize from PEN, and a Native Arts and Culture Award. lindahoganwriter.com