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'''Elissa Washuta''' is an American Indian author from the [[Cowlitz Indian Tribe|Cowlitz]] people of [[Washington (state)|Washington]] State. She has written two memoirs about her young adulthood, ''Starvation Mode: a Memoir of Food, Consumption and Control'' and ''My Body is a Book of Rules''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59709-969-1|title=Nonfiction Book Review: My Body Is a Book of Rules by Elissa Washuta. Red Hen, $16.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-59709-969-1|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-26}}</ref>'','' about her personal history with [[Eating disorder|eating disorders]] and [[Body dysmorphic disorder|body dysmorphia]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theadroitjournal.org/2018/09/26/this-body-is-an-inheritance-a-conversation-with-elissa-washuta/|title=This body is an inheritance: A Conversation with Elissa Washuta|last=Doench|first=Meredith|date=2018-09-27|website=The Adroit Journal|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-26}}</ref>. She is praised for her numerous essays such as "
'''Elissa Washuta''' is an American Indian author from the [[Cowlitz Indian Tribe|Cowlitz]] people of [[Washington (state)|Washington]] State. She has written two memoirs about her young adulthood, ''Starvation Mode: a Memoir of Food, Consumption and Control'' and ''My Body is a Book of Rules''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59709-969-1|title=Nonfiction Book Review: My Body Is a Book of Rules by Elissa Washuta. Red Hen, $16.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-59709-969-1|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-26}}</ref>'','' about her personal history with [[Eating disorder|eating disorders]] and [[Body dysmorphic disorder|body dysmorphia]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theadroitjournal.org/2018/09/26/this-body-is-an-inheritance-a-conversation-with-elissa-washuta/|title=This body is an inheritance: A Conversation with Elissa Washuta|last=Doench|first=Meredith|date=2018-09-27|website=The Adroit Journal|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-26}}</ref>. Washuta says she is praised for her numerous essays such as "
How Much Indian Was I? My Fellow Student Asked".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Much-Indian-Was-I-My/139639|title=How Much Indian Was I?, My Fellow Students Asked|last=Washuta|first=Elissa|date=2013-06-09|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education|access-date=2019-04-09|language=en-US|issn=0009-5982}}</ref> She is known for writing about [[sexual assault]], [[mental health]] issues as a young adult, and struggling with her identity within the community of [[Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast|Indigenous people of Pacific Northwest Coast]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bitchmedia.org/post/interview-elissa-washuta-body-is-a-book-of-rules-feminism|title=Rewriting the Rules with Author Elissa Washuta|website=Bitch Media|language=en|access-date=2019-03-26}}</ref>.
How Much Indian Was I? My Fellow Student Asked".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Much-Indian-Was-I-My/139639|title=How Much Indian Was I?, My Fellow Students Asked|last=Washuta|first=Elissa|date=2013-06-09|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education|access-date=2019-04-09|language=en-US|issn=0009-5982}}</ref> She is known for writing about [[sexual assault]], [[mental health]] issues as a young adult, and struggling with her identity within the community of [[Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast|Indigenous people of Pacific Northwest Coast]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bitchmedia.org/post/interview-elissa-washuta-body-is-a-book-of-rules-feminism|title=Rewriting the Rules with Author Elissa Washuta|website=Bitch Media|language=en|access-date=2019-03-26}}</ref>.


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== Early life and education ==
== Early life and education ==
Washuta's mother had Cowlitz ancestry and she lived in the Columbia River Gorge region. Her parents had met whilst they were at college in Seattle and they moved together to New Jersey."<ref>[https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Much-Indian-Was-I-My/139639 "How Much Indian Was I? My Fellow Students Asked"]</ref> Washuta graduated from high school in [[Liberty Township, New Jersey]] in 2003. She received A grades for her academic achievements which led to an interview for a University of Maryland scholarship. According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], her three family were the only enrolled members of the [[Cowlitz Tribe|Cowlitz tribe]] in her hometown. The Cowlitz tribe had no reservation land base.{{Fact}}
Washuta's mother had Cowlitz ancestry and she lived in the Columbia River Gorge region. Her parents had met whilst they were at college in Seattle and they moved together to New Jersey."<ref>[https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Much-Indian-Was-I-My/139639 "How Much Indian Was I? My Fellow Students Asked"]</ref>{{fact}} Washuta graduated from high school in [[Liberty Township, New Jersey]] in 2003. She received A grades for her academic achievements which led to an interview for a University of Maryland scholarship. According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], her three family were the only enrolled members of the [[Cowlitz Tribe|Cowlitz tribe]] in her hometown. The Cowlitz tribe had no reservation land base.{{Fact}}


After she [[English language|English]], graduated ''summa cum laude'' from the [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]] in 2007<ref name=":0" />, she took a master's degree in [[Creative writing|Creative Writing]] with a distinction in Fiction Writing from the [[University of Washington]] in 2009.{{cn|date=May 2019}}
After she [[English language|English]], graduated ''summa cum laude'' from the [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]] in 2007<ref name=":0" />, she took a master's degree in [[Creative writing|Creative Writing]] with a distinction in Fiction Writing from the [[University of Washington]] in 2009.{{cn|date=May 2019}}

Revision as of 16:36, 3 May 2019

Elissa Washuta is an American Indian author from the Cowlitz people of Washington State. She has written two memoirs about her young adulthood, Starvation Mode: a Memoir of Food, Consumption and Control and My Body is a Book of Rules[1], about her personal history with eating disorders and body dysmorphia[2]. Washuta says she is praised for her numerous essays such as " How Much Indian Was I? My Fellow Student Asked".[3] She is known for writing about sexual assault, mental health issues as a young adult, and struggling with her identity within the community of Indigenous people of Pacific Northwest Coast[4].

In 2019 Washuta was an Assistant Professor of English in the Master's in Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Ohio State University.

Early life and education

Washuta's mother had Cowlitz ancestry and she lived in the Columbia River Gorge region. Her parents had met whilst they were at college in Seattle and they moved together to New Jersey."[5][citation needed] Washuta graduated from high school in Liberty Township, New Jersey in 2003. She received A grades for her academic achievements which led to an interview for a University of Maryland scholarship. According to the United States Census Bureau, her three family were the only enrolled members of the Cowlitz tribe in her hometown. The Cowlitz tribe had no reservation land base.[citation needed]

After she English, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland in 2007[6], she took a master's degree in Creative Writing with a distinction in Fiction Writing from the University of Washington in 2009.[citation needed]

Washuta has written essays for Guernica] and Salon.com. She was the co-editor of the anthology Exquisite Vessel: Shapes of Native Nonfiction, from University of Washington Press.[citation needed] She also contributed to This Is The Place: Women Writing About Home, a Seal Press Anthology that was a New York Times Editors Best Pick Choice.[7]

Washuta received the $25.000 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Creative Writing Fellowship for $25,000 for general career advancement goals[citation needed]. She has received the Artists Trusts Innovator Award which is awarded to artists with exceptional talent and abilities[8]. She has won the 4Culture Art Project Award which is granted to an individual in King County, Washington to help to share their work[9]. My Body Is a Book of Rules was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. [citation needed]

Career

While she worked at the Hugo House, Seattle's center for writers, Washuta mentored emerging scholars. She led classes titles Writing Your Darkest Days and Essential Elements of Memoir: Narrative Momentum[10].

In 2010 Washuta became a lecturer at the University of Washington which she kept until 2014. She was the summer's Writer-In-Residence describing the history of Seattle's Fremont Bridge in 2016.[11]. She worked as a writer for the Institute of American Indian Arts[12] before she became Assistant Professor at [13]Ohio State University, teaching courses focused on Creative Writing since her debut at the University in 2017. She was invited to read at Cornell University as part of the Spring 2019 Barbara & David Zalaznick Creative Writing Reading Series.[citation needed]

She is credited, with Joy Harjo, Sherwin Bitsui and Tommy Pico, for widening the scope of Native American writings.[14]

From July 2010 to June 2017, she was the Academic Counselor for the Department of American Indian Studies at the University Of Washington. She then served as the Interim Youth Programs Coordinator for eight months at the Richard Hugo House from December 2010 to July 2011[6].

Publications

Essays

References

  1. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: My Body Is a Book of Rules by Elissa Washuta. Red Hen, $16.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-59709-969-1". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  2. ^ Doench, Meredith (2018-09-27). "This body is an inheritance: A Conversation with Elissa Washuta". The Adroit Journal. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  3. ^ Washuta, Elissa (2013-06-09). "How Much Indian Was I?, My Fellow Students Asked". The Chronicle of Higher Education. ISSN 0009-5982. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  4. ^ "Rewriting the Rules with Author Elissa Washuta". Bitch Media. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  5. ^ "How Much Indian Was I? My Fellow Students Asked"
  6. ^ a b Washuta, Elissa (August 26, 2018). "Elissa Washuta" (PDF). english.osu.edu. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  7. ^ New York Times
  8. ^ "Money - Artist Trust". artisttrust.org. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  9. ^ "Art Projects". 4Culture. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  10. ^ "Narrative Momentum in Memoir [Elissa Washuta]". Hugo House. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  11. ^ "Seattle Channel: Fremont Bridge Writer-in-Residence | Elissa Washuta". washuta.net. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  12. ^ "Institute of American Indian Arts, August 2015 | Elissa Washuta". washuta.net. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  13. ^ ""Maybe abusive authors don't belong on my bookshelf. But what about in my classroom?"".
  14. ^ Washington Post
  15. ^ "The wrongheaded obsession with "vanishing" indigenous peoples". Salon. 2013-11-24. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  16. ^ "I Am Not Pocahontas | The Weeklings". Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  17. ^ "This Indian Does Not Owe You". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  18. ^ "ESSAY: Consumption by Elissa Washuta". Electric Literature. 2015-06-22. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  19. ^ "They Just Dig: On Writing, Coal Mining, and Fear". Literary Hub. 2016-03-16. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  20. ^ Washuta, Elissa (2016-11-21). "Apocalypse Logic". The Offing. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  21. ^ andrea (2017-03-02). "White City". The Offing. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  22. ^ Washuta, Elissa (2017-04-24). "Shark Girl". City Arts Magazine. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  23. ^ "Wednesday Addams is Just Another Settler". Electric Literature. 2017-11-22. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  24. ^ Washuta, Elissa. "The Sun Disappears". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
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