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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Linda Hogan, a Chickasaw novelist, essayist, and environmentalist, will read from her work Friday, April 18, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the rotunda of the Valley Library at Oregon State University.

A reception and book signing will follow the reading, which is free and open to the public.

Hogan is author of seven poetry collections including "Seeing Through the Sun" (1985), which won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and "The Book of Medicines," a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (1993).

Her collections of prose reflect Hogan's interests in the environment and Native American culture. Her books include the essay collection "Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World" (1995), "The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir" (2001), and, with Brenda Peterson, "Sighting: The Gray Whales' Mysterious Journey" (2002).

Hogan's novels include "Mean Spirit" (1990), "Solar Storms" (1995), "Power" (1998), and "People of the Whale: A Novel" (2008).

Active as an educator and speaker, Hogan taught at the University of Colorado and at the Indigenous Education Institute. 

In advance of her Corvallis visit, Hogan will be writer-in-residence for the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, which is co-sponsored by the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word and the U.S. Forest Service.  

This event is part of the OSU Visiting Writer Series., which brings nationally known writers to Oregon State University. The program is made possible by support from The Valley Library, OSU Press, the OSU School of Writing, Literature, and Film, the College of Liberal Arts, Kathy Brisker and Tim Steele, and Grass Roots Books and Music.

For more information, call 541-737-6198 or visit the Spring Creek website at http://springcreek.oregonstate.edu/