Kirshner said she wanted to give other women the confidence to write. She lived in the same neighbourhood as Sistering and approached them about adding creative writing workshops to their programming. With a small grant from the Ontario Arts Council, she ran a two-month pilot program with five
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Later, she taught creative writing at Colorado College, the University of Minnesota and CU Boulder. Of Chickasaw descent and currently the Chickasaw Nation's Writer in Residence in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, Hogan is internationally recognized as a public speaker and author of poetry, fiction, and
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