Chyana Marie Sage
Memoirist, Essayist, Poet, Screenwriter
"I could begin with me, my beginning, because in a way, that is the end."
About Chyana Marie
Chyana Marie Sage is a Cree, Métis, and Salish memoirist, essayist, poet, and screenwriter from Edmonton, Alberta. Her essay “Soar” won first place in the Edna Staebler Essay Contest, and then won the Silver Medal in the National Magazine Awards.
Sage lives in New York City and graduated from Columbia University’s MFA program, where she worked as an adjunct creative writing professor. She publishes regularly with HuffPost, and her debut memoir, Soft as Bones, was published by House of Anansi in May 2025.
Sage’s writing celebrates culture and overcoming adversity, and shows how Indigenous methods, cultural stories, and practices have great capacity for healing. When she is not writing, she is most often traveling, as she loves to learn and experience other cultures and ways of life. She is currently working on a short film and writing a magical realism novel.
Selected Works
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Appearances
Every time Chyana Marie Sage has taken the stage with House of SpeakEasy.
We the People
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater
The night of Seriously Entertaining: “We the People,” the House of SpeakEasy Bookmobile embarked on a tour of the 13 original colonies. This show and tour supported an inquiry into what “We the People” means, examining how democracy shaped the nascent United States 250 years ago, and how it continues to evolve. Presented in collaboration with Library of America, Seriously Entertaining: “We the People” reflected on this milestone, our communities, and our complicated country. Chyana Marie Sage reflects on inherited history and how the legacies of our forebears continue to shape all of us.
James Basker, Terrance Hayes, Heidi Schreck, John Avlon Max Rudin
Either/Or
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater
An evening of split decisions, double meanings, and the beauty (and chaos) of contradiction. Chyana Marie Sage explores “Either/Or” through the conflicted push and pull of love and hate at the heart of her relationship with her father.
Joan Larkin, John Seabrook, Laurie Woolever
Chyana Marie Sage on Stage
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