Elissa Washuta

Elissa Washuta is a Native American author from the Cowlitz people of Washington State. She has written two memoirs about her young adulthood, Starvation Mode: a Memoir of Food, Consumption and Control and My Body is a Book of Rules, about her personal history with eating disorders and body dysmorphia. She writes about assault, mental health issues as a young adult, and struggling with her identity within the Indigenous community of the Pacific Northwest Coast.