Date: Mar. 06, 2012
Start Time: 5:00 PM
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In conjunction with the Women’s Studies Progam for Women’s
History Month
Tuesday, March 6 • 5 p.m.
The Theatre Free
Linda Hogan, a Chickasaw poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and activist, is widely considered to be one of the most influential and provocative Native American figures in the contemporary American literary landscape, and is an internationally recognized public speaker. Her most recent books are the poetry collection, Rounding
the Human Corners (Coffee House Press, 2008), and the novel, People of the Whale (Norton, 2008). Her other books include the novels Mean Spirit, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Solar Storms, a finalist for the International Impact Award, and Power. Her collection of poetry The Book of Medicines was a finalist for
the National Book Critics Circle Award. In addition, she has co-authored, with Brenda Peterson, 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.
Hogan has received a prestigious Lannan Fellowship, 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. A Professor Emerita from the University of Colorado, she is now the Writer-in-Residence for The Chickasaw Nation and lives in Oklahoma.
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