Ren Cedar Fuller

Ren Cedar Fuller's debut book, Bigger, won the 2024 Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize, and was a finalist for the 2024 Iron Horse Prize and the Santa Fe Writers Project 2023 Literary Awards Program.

Her creative nonfiction essays have won Under the Sun's Summer Writing Contest in 2022, been a finalist in the 2022 Terry Tempest Williams Prize for Creative Nonfiction at North American Review, and placed second in the 2022 Eunice Williams Nonfiction Prize. Her essays have appeared in Hippocampus, New England Review, and North American Review, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays.

Ren taught public school in California, Oregon, and Washington before founding a nonprofit early learning center in the Seattle area. She continues teaching parent education and facilitates parent meetings at TransFamilies, an online hub for families with gender diverse children. The throughline in her teaching and writing is a commitment to celebrating people's differences.