Caite Mae Ramos is a mixed-race Oglala Lakota citizen of the Great Sioux Nation. In 2015 they graduated with high honors and a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. After graduation, Caite Mae spent two years on the Olympic Peninsula and moved to Northwest Arkansas in 2017. They became a master gardener that same year and have since been obsessed with growing plants in alternative ways in a home environment with limited access to land. Currently, they are an MFA candidate at the University of Arkansas and co-run ‘The Botanical Sketchers of the Ozarks.’