Rose DeMaris
Rose is a poet and teacher. Her poetry appears in New England Review, Narrative, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Fence, Image, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, on poets.org, and elsewhere. A Best New Poets and Best of the Net nominee, she has received Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry and the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award, and is a finalist for the Beullah Rose Poetry Prize. Her translations of poems by Palestinian Lebanese writer May Ziadeh were spotlit by the Academy of American Poets. She also writes fiction and nonfiction.
Born in California and raised there by her mother and grandmother, 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 in Poetry from Columbia University, where she was awarded a Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship. She has worked as a baker, florist, metalsmith, fence mender, secretary, bookseller, seamstress, and more.
She lives in Montana.