Chris La Tray is a Métis 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 second book, a collection of haiku and haibun poetry called
Descended From a Travel-worn Satchel was published by Foothills Publishing in September, 2021.
Chris is an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians and lives near Missoula, Montana.