Ruby Hansen Murray is a citizen of the Osage and Cherokee Nations with Afro-Caribbean roots, living in the lower Columbia River estuary. An award-winning columnist for the Osage News, a winner of The Iowa Review and Montana Nonfiction (2024 & 2017) Prizes, and a MacDowell, Tin House Debut 40, and Indigenous Nations Poets fellow. Her work is included in Cascadia: A Field Guide (Tupelo Press), Allotment Stories (University of Minnesota Press), and Shapes of Native Nonfiction (University of Washington Press).