#SustainabilitySaturday with Linda Hogan
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Linda Hogan is a Chickasaw poet, novelist, and environmentalist. Linda’s writing features themes of the environment and eco-feminism, the relocation of Native Americans, and historical narratives. Born in Denver, Colorado, Linda moved around as a child because of her father being in the military. After graduating from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Linda received her Master’s Degree in English and creative writing at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In the same year that she earned her master’s, Linda published her first collection of poetry.
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In 1979, Linda adopted two Lakota girls and frequently incorporated parenthood and caregiving into her writing. In her poetry collections, Daughters, I Love You (1981) and Eclipse (1983), Linda emphasized the importance of preserving the environment and cultural heritage. Threats of war and nuclear proliferation were themes in these collections. Later books addressed ecological issues and the displacement of Native Americans.
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Linda’s writing has been considered literary activism. Linda has been awarded a Puschart Prize, the PEN Thoreau Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, and lifetime achievement awards from Native Writers Circle of the Americas, The Wordcraft Circle, and The Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association.
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Linda is professor emeritus and is the first minority woman to have become a full professor at the University of Colorado. Linda was also involved with the Native Science Dialogues and has been a keynote speaker and lecturer.
