Rose DeMaris
Rose is a poet and teacher. Her poetry appears in New England Review, Narrative, Fence, Prairie Schooner, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, on poets.org, &c. She received Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry and a Patricia Dobler Poetry Award, and was recently a finalist for the Beullah Rose Poetry Prize. Her translations of poems by Lebanese Palestinian writer May Ziadeh have been spotlit by the Academy of American Poets.
Born and raised in Southern California, she was a first-generation college graduate who studied Literature, 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 has worked as a baker, florist, metalsmith, fence builder, secretary, bookseller, copywriter, seamstress, and more.
She lives in Montana.