About the Author

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Linda Hogan is an American writer, academic, and environmentalist who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for her novel Mean Spirit. The Chickasaw Nation’s writer in residence, she has also been honored with an American Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Hogan lives in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. To learn more, visit lindahoganwriter.com.

Brenda Peterson is the bestselling author of more than 15 books, including Sightings: The Gray Whales’ Mysterious Journey, Your Life Is a Book: How to Craft & Publish Your Memoir, and Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Huffington Post, among many other publications. To learn more, visit brendapetersonbooks.com.