Aimee Inglis is a member of the Osage Nation born and raised in Anaheim, California, near the Santa Ana (Wanaawna) river, and is active with the Northern and Southern California Osage diaspora groups. She has worked in social movement organizations for housing and climate justice for fifteen years, and currently practices herbalism, tarot, songwriting, and poetry, and is an MFA student in Creative Writing, Poetry, at the Institute of American Indian Arts.