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Sasha Lapointe

Sasha taq s blu LaPointe is a Coast Salish author from the Nooksack and Upper Skagit Indian tribes. She is the author of Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk , winner of a Pacific Northwest Book Award, the Washington State Book Award for Creative Nonfiction/Memoir, and an NPR Best Book of the Year. She received a double MFA degree in creative nonfiction and poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Tacoma, Washington.