Cat De La Paz is a detribalized Indigenous trans Chicana writer in Seattle.

She writes about the numerous ways an interior life survives compulsory visibility. Her fiction appears in The Louisville Review and Ponder Review, with "Push Yourself Out Again" forthcoming in Ginosko Literary Journal. Her debut short story, "You Were Always My Mija" was nominated for a 2026 Pushcart Prize, and her work was longlisted for the 2026 Sunspot Lit Rigel Contest.