Bio
Rose DeMaris is an emerging poet and longtime teacher. Her poems appear in New England Review, Narrative, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Image, Alaska Quarterly Review, on poets.org, &c. She received Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry and the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award. Her translations of poems by Palestinian Lebanese writer May Ziadeh were spotlit by the Academy of American Poets.
Born in Southern California and raised there by her mother and grandmother, she was a first-generation college graduate who studied Literature and 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 mender, secretary, bookseller, copywriter, seamstress, and more. She lives in Montana.