Chyana Marie Sage is a Cree, Métis, and Salish memoirist, essayist, poet, and screenwriter from Edmonton, Alberta. Her essay “Soar” won first place in the Edna Staebler Essay Contest, and then won the Silver Medal in the National Magazine Awards. She was the first Indigenous graduate from Columbia University’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction program, where she worked on her debut memoir, Soft As Bones, which is now available everywhere books are sold. Her writing is a celebration of culture, showing the ways that Indigenous methods, cultural stories and practices have great capacity for healing. She is often somewhere near trees. 

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Click here to read a new article in The Tyee discussing Chyana’s debut memoir Soft As Bones.