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= Elissa Washuta = Elissa Washuta is a Cowlitz author of two memoirs from her young adulthood, Starvation Mode: a Memoir of Food, Consumption and Control and My Body is a Book of Rules , which is a novel written about her personal history with eating disorders and body dysmorphia. She is praised for her numerous essays such as "How Much Indian Was I? My Fellow Student Asked". She is known for her writings about sexual assault, dealing with mental health issues as a young adult, and struggling with her identity within the community of Indigenous people of Pacific Northwest Coast.

Washuta has been a peer educator and youth leader, and is currently an Assistant Professor of English in the Master's in Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. 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 of 2010 to July of 2011.

Education
Washuta graduated from her local high school in Liberty Township, New Jersey in 2003, after being told that she and her three family members were the only enrolled members of the Cowlitz tribe from her local hometown by the United States Census Bureau. She received her Bachelor's degree in English, graduating summa cum laude from the University of Maryland in 2007. Washuta then went on to pursue Master's degree in Creative Writing with a distinction in Fiction Writing from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington in 2009.

Washuta has been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Creative Writing Fellowship for $25,000 which is awarded to published creative writers to equip them with general career advancement goals. She has received the Artists Trusts Innovator Award which is awarded to practicing professionals artists with exceptional talent and abilities. She has won the 4Culture Art Project Award which is an award granted to an individual in the King County in Washington that gives individuals money to help create and share their work.

Career
While she worked at the Hugo House in Seattle, Washuta mentored emerging writers. She led classes primarily during the fall months including: Writing Your Darkest Days and Essential Elements of Memoir: Narrative Momentum . She then held the position as a lecturer at the University of Washington between 2010 and 2014. Washuta then served as the Writer-In-Residence of the Fremont Bridge in 2016, in Washington. She wrote a description for the bridge's historical significance to the town for three months during the summer. Her career then took her to the Institute of American Indian Arts as a Low-Residency Non-Fiction Faculty Member. She has since been serving as an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University, teaching courses focused on Creative Writing since her debut at the University in 2017.

Publications
Essays


 * "The wrongheaded obsession with 'vanishing' indigenous peoples," (November 2013)
 * "I am not Pocahontas" (September 2014)
 * "This Indian Does Not Owe You" (September 2014)
 * "Consumption" (June 2015)
 * "They Just Dig: On Writing, Coal Mining, and Fear," (March 2016)
 * "Apocalypse Logic," (November 2016)
 * "White City" (March 2017)
 * "Shark Girl" (April 2017)
 * "Wednesday Addams Is Just Another Settler" (November 2017)
 * "The Sun Disappears" (November 2018)