M.s. RedCherries

m.s. RedCherries is a writer from the Northern Cheyenne Nation. Her debut poetry collection, mother, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2024.

Early life and education RedCherries is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation. In an interview with Chapter House, the magazine of the Institute of American Indian Arts, RedCherries stated that she grew up with her birth parents but was later adopted by a family in Texas, a decision made "because of my mother’s love to want a better life for me." Later in life, RedCherries graduated from Arizona State University with a Juris Doctor degree. There, she had taken a creative writing course in her very last semester of law school called "Creative Writing in the Law" taught by writer Gary Stuart; the class was interested in how to make briefs more narratively legible and interesting. There, she began working on the pieces for her debut poetry collection, mother, which later became her thesis; Lan Samantha Chang would serve as her thesis advisor. By her final semester, RedCherries found a sense of organization for the poems she wrote. RedCherries' debut was also featured in LitHub and Electric Literature.