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Tin House Debut 40 Residency, January, 2025

The Hopkins Review nominated “A Small Fan in the Window, Best New Poets, 2024

Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow, Retreat 2024

Winner, Montana Prize in Nonfiction “Kansas Tries to Say Goodbye,” Cut Bank, 2024 “In ‘Kansas Tries to Say Goodbye,’ Ruby Hansen Murray centers Osage language reclamation and community building in its rightful home on the South Plains. This essay shows the importance of language and land while also telling the compelling story of the language teachers, their histories and processes and deep commitment. The essay’s images and language carry the beauty and motion of the place and people with grace and love. It’s a beautiful portrait of connection.”

Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar 2024

Honorable Mention, This Foreign Land, Chad Walsh Chapbook Contest, Beloit Poetry Review, 2024

Finalist, “Lillie in the Reign of Terror,” Goldstein Poetry Prize, Michigan Quarterly Review, 2024

Finalist, Lois Cranston Memorial Prize, Calyx, 2024

Nominated for Best New Poets, “A Small Fan in the Window,” The Hopkins Review, 2024

SWWIM Residency, Miami, 2023

Winner, The Iowa Review Prize 2022. “AnOsage Looks at the Pioneer Woman,” Judge Inara Verzemnieks wrote “With a striking blend of reportage, research, memoir and cultural criticism, the writer evokes a complex and layered portrait of place, of history and its elisions and revisions.  Beautifully written, full of revelation and reckoning, this is a gorgeous example of how the essay can both restore the past, ask us to reconsider the present, and imagine what the future could, and should, be.”

MacDowell Fellow, 2022  

On the Island, Semifinalist, Tupelo Press Sunken Garden Chapbook Contest, 2021

“We Threw Them Away,” Cutthroat, 2021

New Poets of Native Nations Women’s Scholarship, 2019

Hedgebrook, Indigenous Writers, Whidbey Island, WA 2018

Ragdale Fellow, Lake Forest, IL, 2018

Storyknife, Homer AK 2017

Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, WA 2017

Winner Montana Nonfiction Prize, “Ricochet,” Cut Bank, 2017

Brush Creek, Sheridan, WY 2016

“The Deaths of Sybil Bolton,” playwright David Blakely’s adaptation of Osage Dennis McAuliffe’s examination of his mother’s death in the Osage Reign of Terror, brings an Osage cast member and strong stagecraft to a complicated history. See my review in Osage News, November, 2019.

Check out my review of Ryan RedCorn (OsageNation) and the 1491s reflection on events at Wounded Knee, both the massacre and the Pine Ridge takeover in 1973, in “Between Two Knees” at the Ashland Shakespeare Festival, Osage News, July, 2019.

Many thanks to Byron Aspaas, Nonfiction Editor of As/Us for publishing “Our Hearts Beating,” which began to take form in a workshop with Lidia Yuknavitch in the Oregon State Garden, in the dark winter days of January, 2017.

Grateful for a Fishtrap fellowship that meant making new friends, as well as spending time with writers I admire, Debra Earling, Eliot Treichel, Luis Urrea.

A pleasure to work with Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, who guest edited and introduced New Native Writing, World Literature Today, including my Coyote Hunters.

“My husband remembers when there were no coyotes on the island. Maybe the Cathlamet Channel filled in enough for them to swim or walk over on a low tide, maybe they smelled Fred Stanley’s sheep, but I hear them calling some evenings.”