Please join us as we kick off the Tin House 2025 Residency Reading series with current residents M.L. Krishnan & Ruby Hansen Murray and special guests Anthony Hudson and Carla Crujido.
Masks required.
Reception to follow.
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M.L. Krishnan originally hails from the coastal shores of Tamil Nadu, India. She is a 2019 graduate of the Clarion West Writers' Workshop, a 2022 recipient of the Millay Arts Fellowship, a 2022 recipient of the Carnegie Corporation Fellowship, and a 2022-2023 MacDowell Fellow. Her stories and essays have appeared, or are forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Black Warrior Review, Zócalo Public Square, The Offing and elsewhere. While at Tin House, M.L. is working on her debut short-story collection whose characters come to terms with queer longing, ferocious desires, and codified traditions that they are forced to adhere to. Ultimately, this collection is about queer concealment as survival, about lives layered beneath other lives, about the gendered violences of place and caste and colonial hubris.
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Ruby Hansen Murray is a columnist for the Osage News. She’s the winner of The Iowa Review and Montana Nonfiction Prizes, and a MacDowell, Indigenous Native Poets, Ragdale, and Hedgebrook fellow. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, Ecotone, Moss, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Prism International. She’s a citizen of the Osage and Cherokee Nations with West Indian roots, living in the lower Columbia River estuary. While at Tin House, Ruby is working on When Blood is Oil, which places Osage life and history beside America’s false self-image, crafted of scenes from Little House on the Prairie and Ree Drummond’s soft-focus Pioneer Woman. Poems range across ancestral land, Wah Zha Zhe community life, and language preservation. The manuscript, which celebrates Osage lifeways, is an antidote to the battle against Osage sovereignty.
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Anthony Hudson is a Grand Ronde / Siletz artist and writer working in theatre, drag, film/video, and nonfiction. Anthony's theatrical work, from Looking for Tiger Lily to Queer Horror—and performances as Portland's premier drag clown CARLA ROSSI—have earned him national fellowships, international engagements, and sainthood from the Portland Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Anthony’s writing has appeared in American Theatre, BOMB Magazine, and Arts and International Affairs. He is currently adapting Looking for Tiger Lily into a book.
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Carla Crujido is the Assistant Editor at River Styx Magazine. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and has had writing published in Moss, Bellingham Review, Crazyhorse, Yellow Medicine Review, Ricepaper Magazine, and elsewhere. Her debut fiction collection, The Strange Beautiful, centers on the Mount Vernon Apartments in Spokane, Washington, offering a glimpse into the lives of ten tenants over a period of one hundred years.