Rose DeMaris
Rose’s poetry appears in New England Review, Narrative, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, and on poets.org. Her translations of poems by Lebanese Palestinian writer May Ziadeh have been spotlit by the Academy of American Poets. Born in Southern California and raised there by a single mom, she studied Literature in college, then earned advanced degrees in English and Native American Studies. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University, where she was a Teaching Fellow. She has worked as a florist, barista, baker, copywriter, metalsmith, fence builder, secretary, bookseller, seamstress, and more. She lives in Montana and teaches creative writing to teens.