Rose DeMaris
Rose is a poet whose writing appears in New England Review, Narrative, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fence, Prairie Schooner, on poets.org, and elsewhere. She has received Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry and a Patricia Dobler Poetry Award. Her translations of poems by Lebanese Palestinian writer May Ziadeh were spotlit by the Academy of American Poets. Born and raised in Southern California, she 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.