SOURCE: An interview with Linda Hogan in The Missouri Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1994, pp. 109-34.

In the following interview, Hogan discusses her childhood, her personal beliefs, and the inspiration for her works.

Linda Hogan is a prize-winning Native American poet, short story writer and novelist living in Colorado. Her books include Seeing through the Sun, which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation; the highly acclaimed novel, Mean Spirit; and most recently The Book of Medicines. She has a forthcoming novel, Solar Storm, a chapter from which originally appeared in The Missouri Review and will be reprinted in the upcoming Pushcart Prizes.

This interview was conducted in January of 1992 in Columbia, Missouri, by the staff of The Missouri Review.

[Interviewer:] Can we begin by talking about your background—where you grew up and the things that you did?

[Hogan:] My family is from Oklahoma, near Ardmore...