Rose DeMaris
Rose is a writer and teacher. Her poetry appears in Narrative, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, New England Review, Image, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fence, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She received Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry and the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award, and is a finalist for the Beullah Rose Poetry Prize and a Best of the Net nominee. Her translations of poems by Palestinian Lebanese writer May Ziadeh were spotlit by the Academy of American Poets. She also writes fiction and nonfiction.
Born in California and raised there by a single mom, she is a first-generation college graduate who studied Literature and went on to earn advanced degrees in English and Native American Studies. She also holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University, where she was a Teaching Fellow.
She lives in Montana.
