Linda Hogan (born 1947) is a Native American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories.

Hogan's ancestry is Chickasaw, but she has written that her family's military background meant that she grew up in a peripatetic way that denied her any sense of belonging to an individual Native community, mostly living in Colorado and Oklahoma.

She was the first member of her family to go to school, and not only did well there but went on to receive her MA from the University of Colorado Read more...