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
