Ren Cedar Fuller won the 2024 Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize for Bigger: A Collection of Essays. Bigger will be published in October 2025.

        Ren won Under the Sun's Summer Writing Contest in 2022, was a finalist in the 2022 Terry Tempest Williams Prize for Creative Nonfiction at North American Review and the 2024 Iron Horse Prize for a first book of collected prose, and placed second in the 2022 Eunice Williams Nonfiction Prize. Her essays have appeared in HerStry, Hippocampus, New England Review, North American Review, and Under the Sun, 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.

          After retiring from early childhood education in 2020, Ren began taking writing classes at Hugo House in Seattle. She thanks her instructors Theo Nestor, Sonora Jha, and Beth Slattery for introducing her to the craft of creative nonfiction. She is currently in the M.F.A. in Writing program at Pacific University.

          Ren is grateful the writing friends she met at Hugo House who help her get to the heart of her stories: Darryl, Lacey, Stacey, Su, Uma, and Vani. She lives in Seattle with her husband, Jason.