For more information contact UAS Information Officer Kevin Myers at 796-6530 or by email.

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February 28, 2005
UAS to Host Award-Winning Author Linda Hogan

Award-winning author Linda Hogan will give two presentations during her visit to the University of Alaska Southeast on March 10. She will be performing from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. at the Auke Lake campus, and will give a public lecture the same evening in the Egan Library at 7 p.m. Her lectures are free and open to the public.

Hogan has served on the National Endowment for the Arts poetry panel for two years; her writing credits include works of prose, poetry, as well as plays. Some of her writing awards include a 2002 Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year Creative Prose: Memoir for The Woman Who Watches Over The World: A Native Memoir. In July 1998, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas. Linda received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1986 for Seeing Through the Sun.

Growing up in a military family, Hogan moved often, but spent most of her childhood in Oklahoma and Colorado. She was an English professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where she received her M.A. in 1978. Hogan's Chickasaw tribal affiliation and Native roots play a central roll in her writing. Hogan says that much of her work concerns the traditional indigenous view of and relationship to the land, animals and plants. In her spare time she volunteers for wildlife rehabilitation.


Contacts:
UAS Assistant Professor of English Alexis Easley: 465-6415
UAS Director of Public Relations and Marketing Kevin Myers: 796-6530


* Ms. Hogan will be flying in late the night before her performances, limiting her availability. Phone interviews can be arranged in advance of her arrival through Alexis or Kevin.

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