Ruby Hansen Murray is a columnist for the Osage News. She’s the winner of The Iowa Review and Montana Nonfiction Prizes, and a MacDowell, Ragdale, and Hedgebrook fellow. Her poetry appears in The Hopkins Review, Ecotone, Beloit Poetry Journal, Prism, and South Florida Poetry Journal. Find her prose in Cutbank, Pleiades, Under the Sun, the Massachusetts Review, High Desert Journal, and The Rumpus. Her work is included in Cascadia: A Field Guide (Tupelo Press), Allotment Stories (Univ of Minnesota Press), and Shapes of Native Nonfiction (Univ of Washington Press). She’s a citizen of the Osage and Cherokee Nations with West Indian roots, living in the lower Columbia River estuary.
