Linda Hogan (Chickasaw), Writer in Residence for The Chickasaw Nation, is an internationally recognized public speaker and writer of poetry, fiction, and essays. Her two new books are Rounding the Human Corners (Coffee House P, Pulitzer nominee) and People of the Whale (W.W. Norton). Her poetry has received the Colorado Book Award, Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, an American Book Award, and a prestigious Lannan Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. In addition, she has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, The Wordcraft Circle, and The Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association. She has worked with Native youth in horse programs and continues to teach creative writing. A former Professor at the University of Colorado, she now lives and works in Oklahoma. Her newest work is as editor of thirty years of Parabola essays for a new book, The Inner Journey: Native Traditions (Morning Light P). In addition, she has just had a short documentary PBS/​American Experience posted for the REEL/​NATIVE series, A Feel for the Land.