Camaray Davalos (Payómkawichum/Xicana) graduated from Humboldt State University in 2018, majoring in Native American Studies. Using creative non-fiction as well as fiction, she has engaged readers of her work by covering Indigenous social and environmental issues, as well as the complexities of gender roles and identity. In 2020 she won the Native Voices 10th Annual Short Play Festival Audience Prize, and in 2021 she wrote and filmed her first short, Woman Who Blooms at Night. She currently resides in her ancestral Payómkawichum lands of southern California.