Rose DeMaris is a writer and teacher. Her poetry appears in New England Review, Narrative, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Fence, Image, Asymptote, and Alaska Quarterly Review as well as on poets.org and elsewhere. She has received Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry and the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award. She also writes fiction.
Born in Southern 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 from Columbia University, where she was a Teaching Fellow.
She has worked as a florist, barista, baker, copywriter, metalsmith, fence mender, secretary, bookseller, seamstress, caregiver, and more.
She lives in Montana.
Image credit: B. Molnar
Cold and metalline, the soul was mined from rocks,
became thin wires that keep the colors in this enameled jewel from
bleeding…