Turtle Talk

As part of the continuing Contemporary Writers Series at Aquinas College , Linda Hogan, one of the most influential and provocative Native American figures in contemporary American literature, will read and speak in the Wege Center Ballroom on the Aquinas campus.  The event will be held on October 29 at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Hogan, a Chickasaw poet, novelist, essayist, playwright and activist, grew up in a military family, spending most of her childhood in Oklahoma and Colorado .  Hogan received her master’s degree in English and creative writing from the University of Colorado , and was the writer-in-residence for the states of Colorado and Oklahoma .  In 1982 she became an assistant professor in the TRIBES program at Colorado College , Colorado Springs after which she became an associate professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota .  She then moved to the University of Colorado as a professor in the English department.  She left that position to become a full-time writer.  Hogan’s writing is prolific, and she has distinguished herself as a political ideologist and an environmental/philosophical theorist.

Linda Hogan is an acclaimed Chickasaw Poet, Novelist and Essayist Her writing includes a few of the following: The Inner Journey: Views from Native Traditions, 2009 People of the Whale: A Novel, 2008 Power, 1998, a novel Dwellings; A Spiritual History of the Natural World, 1995 Solar Storms, 1995, New York Times Notable Book Mean Spirit, 1990, a novel, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Rounding the Human Corners, 2008, a poetry book which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Linda Hogan has written a documentary narrative about the history of American Indian Religious Freedom, Everything Has A Spirit, seen on PBS. Hogan was honored by her tribe as one of the “Heroes and Dreamers and has recorded, in her voice, a piece of writing for the collection of materials.  She is also a recipient of the Spirit of the West award.