Rose DeMaris is a poet and teacher. Her poetry appears in New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Image, and on poets.org. She has received Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature Award for Poetry and the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award. Her translations of poems by Palestinian Lebanese writer May Ziadeh were featured 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 also holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University, where she was awarded a Teaching Fellowship. She has worked as a baker, florist, metalsmith, fence builder, secretary, bookseller, copywriter, and seamstress. She lives in Montana.