CHYANA MARIE SAGE is a Cree, Métis, and Salish writer from Edmonton, Alberta. Her essay “Soar” won first place in the Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest, then won Silver in the National Magazine Awards. She graduated with an MFA in creative non-fiction from Columbia University, where she taught as an adjunct professor. Her journalism has appeared in HuffPost, the New Quarterly, and the Toronto Star. She teaches Indigenous youth how to foster self-love and healing for Connected North and models in her spare time. When she isn’t working, she is travelling and seeing nature around the world.