Rose DeMaris
Rose is a writer and teacher. Her poetry appears in Narrative, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, New England Review, Fence, Image, Asymptote, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere, as well as on poets.org. She has received Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry and the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award. She also writes fiction and nonfiction.
Born in California and raised there by a single mom, she is a first-generation college graduate who studied Literature and went on to earn advanced degrees in English and Native American Studies. She also holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Teaching Fellow.
She has worked as a baker, florist, metalsmith, fence mender, secretary, bookseller, barista, seamstress, copywriter, caregiver, and more.
She lives in Montana.
