Ruby Hansen Murray is an award-winning columnist for the Osage News, recipient of a Washington Artist Trust Fellowship in 2026. She is the winner of The Iowa Review and Montana Nonfiction (2024 & 2017) Prizes and a Notable in Best American Essay 2025, and is a MacDowell, Artst Trust, Tin House Debut 40, and Indigenous Nations Poets fellow. She has been nominated for Push Cart prizes, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net. She’s a finalist for Beloit’s Chad Walsh Chapbook and Burnside Review Press Prizes, and semi-finalist for Persea Lexi Rudnitsky Chapbook and Perugia Press prizes. Her poetry appears in Conjunctions, Cutleaf, Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Hopkins Review, and Ecotone among others. Find her prose in Cutbank, Pleiades, the Massachusetts Review, High Desert Journal, and Transmotion. 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 Afro-Caribbean roots, living in the lower Columbia River estuary.
