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Elissa Washuta

Elissa Washuta
Elissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a nonfiction writer. She is the author most recently of White Magic (Tin House). Her other books include Starvation Mode, My Body Is a Book of Rules , named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and with Theresa Warburton, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers . She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the Ohio State University.


Elissa Washuta on the Questions that Animate an Essay

"I want to control everything, but the essay won’t let me."
May 7, 2021  By Elissa Washuta
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They Just Dig: On Writing, Coal Mining, and Fear

The Hard Work of Excavating Trauma
March 16, 2016  By Elissa Washuta
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