Like Joy Harjo, Chickasaw writer Linda Hogan weaves together the beautiful and the terrible. Her poetry and fiction grapple with the reality of mixed blood so common in the cultural polyglot of the Southwest, and with the tragic history of Native Americans and the loss of their lands.

The landscape, animal spirits, bat medicine, and traditional tribal cultures compete in hogans writing with the technological onslaught of the twentieth century. Her bittersweet realizations about her mixed heritage echo in the works of Hispanic writers such as Alberto Rios and Denise Chavez.

Click here to hear an excerpt on Linda Hogan from "Writing the Southwest"