Rose DeMaris is a poet and teacher. Her poems appear in New England Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Image, Narrative, and elsewhere, and her English translations of poetry by Lebanese-Palestinian writer May Ziadeh have been the first to appear in print. She received the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award and Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry. A first-generation college graduate, she holds advanced degrees in English and Native American Studies and also earned an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University, where she was a 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…