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Rose DeMaris

is a writer and teacher. Her poetry has appeared in New England Review, Narrative, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fence, and Prairie Schooner. Her translations of poems by Lebanese Palestinian writer May Ziadeh have been featured by the Academy of American Poets and elsewhere. Born and raised in Southern California, Rose 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 lives in Montana and teaches creative writing to teens.

I practiced lapidary…