LINDA HOGAN (Chickasaw) is an internationally recognized author and speaker. Her novel Mean Spirit was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and her poetry collection The Book of Medicines was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her most recent book of poetry is Dark. Sweet.: New and Selected Poems. Her novels include People of the Whale, Solar Storms, and Power. Essay collections include Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World and The Radiant Lives of Animals. Hogan’s work explores human relationships with the environment, Indigenous science, and traditional knowledge. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, a Native Arts and Culture Fellowship, a PEN Thoreau Award, and numerous other recognitions.