CMarie Fuhrman was born and raised in Colorado, in the shadow of Horsetooth Mountain and Rocky Mountain National Park. She was introduced to wild places and beings by parents who grew up on the land, hunting, fishing, and gardening, and who passed on their knowledge and enthusiasm to their two daughters. CMarie has lived in west central Idaho for almost a decade, having spent nearly her whole life along the backbone of the Rockies.
The Salmon River Mountains have become more than a home for her, more than a character in her writing, but a part of her, inherent to all she is, from the Frank Church Wilderness to the deep waters of the Salmon and Snake rivers. CMarie works with organizations that defend beings like grizzlies, rivers like the South Fork of the Salmon, and Native women’s bodies—where destruction and erasure are mirrored in humans—with an undeniable understanding of the urgency to protect these places, both wild and urban.
CMarie is the author of Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems and the co-editor of Cascadia: Art, Ecology, and Poetry (Winner of the PNBA, 2023), as well as Native Voices. Her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, including Emergence Magazine, Terrain.org, Yellow Medicine Review, Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts, and others. CMarie is the Associate Director and Director of the Poetry Concentration of Western Colorado University’s Graduate Program for Creative Writing, where she also teaches nature writing. CMarie is an award winning columnist for the Inlander and the director of the Elk River Writers Workshop. CMarie is the host of Terra Firma, a Colorado Public Radio program. She is a former Idaho Writer in Residence and lives in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho.
This bio was drawn from the author’s website with her permission. www.cmariefuhrman.com
