Steph Littlebird

Steph Littlebird ​is an artist, curator, writer, and a member of Oregon’s Grand Ronde Confederated Tribes (Clatsop Chinook, Afalati Kalapuya). Steph received national recognition as curator of This IS Kalapuyan Land (2020), an exhibition at the Five Oaks Museum in Portland, Oregon, which was featured by ArtNews and PBS NewsHour. Littlebird's first illustrated children's book, My Powerful Hair (2023), was awarded the national Carter G. Woodson Social Studies Award (2024). Her author debut, You Are the Land, an ode to the Willamette Valley, was published by Penguin Random House, released February 2026.