Chris La Tray is a Métis writer and storyteller. His first book, One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large (2018, Riverfeet Press) won the 2018 Montana Book Award and a 2019 High Plains Book Award. His next book, Becoming Little Shell , will be published by Milkweed Editions in 2021. Chris is an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians and lives near Missoula, Montana.