Rose DeMaris
Photo by Colter Ellis
Rose’s poetry appears in New England Review, Fence, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, on poets.org, and elsewhere. Her translations of poems by Lebanese Palestinian writer May Ziadeh have been spotlit by the Academy of American Poets.
Born in Southern California, she was a first-generation college grad who studied Literature and went on to earn advanced degrees in English and Native American Studies. She holds an MFA 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.
She lives in Montana, where she teaches creative writing to teens.