Hogan is a Chickasaw writer and environmentalist. In an interview with John Murray for Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments, an online nonprofit magazine, Hogan talks about keeping her personal journal, which is where the detailed observations of her natural surroundings were first recorded.
“I used to keep a journal religiously. That was how I began every morning. I’d get up and write in my journal. It seems that when I started writing fiction and essays, the energy that normally goes into journal writing had another outlet, although I do miss it.
I also realized that I was writing about the same things every day anyway. Every morning I would remark about the beauty of that particular morning and what the birds were doing, what the trees looked like, whether it was raining. I finally realized that probably I could do more for nature in other, less private, kinds of writing.”
I especially enjoyed her poem, “The History of Red.”
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