Elissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a nonfiction writer. Her book White Magic will be published by Tin House in April 2021. She is also the author of Starvation Mode and My Body Is a Book of Rules, named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. 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.