Chris La Tray is a Metis writer and storyteller, and winner of the 2018 Montana Book Award for One-Sentence Journal:Short Poems and Essays From the World At Large. His forthcoming books are Descended from a Travel-worn Satchel (September 2021) and the much-anticipated Becoming Littleshell (2022). Chris is an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians and lives near Missoula, Montana.