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Bio Rose DeMaris

 
 
 

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

 
 

At last,

love has woven itself into my life like a rumor…