Elissa Washuta

Elissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a nonfiction writer. She is 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 the co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She has recieved fellowships and awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, Creative Capital, Artist Trust, 4Culture, and Potlach Fund. 

Selected Publications

• Starvation Mode: A Memoir of Food, Consumption, and Control. Instant Future-Future Tense Books, 2015. EBook.
• My Body Is a Book of Rules. Red Hen Press, 2014.
• Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. University of Washington Press, 2019.

Curriculum Vitae

WashutaCV 2019.pdf