Rose DeMaris’s recent poems appear in New England Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Image, Narrative, and elsewhere, and she has published the first English translations of poetry by Lebanese-Palestinian writer May Ziadeh. A Best New Poets nominee, she has received the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award and Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry. She holds advanced degrees in Native American Studies and English, as well as an MFA from Columbia University, where she received a Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship. She has worked as a florist, barista, baker, copywriter, metalsmith, fence mender, secretary, bookseller, caregiver, seamstress, and more. Born in 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…