Teacher/Presenter Bios for CMarie
CMarie Fuhrman
Longest Bio: (283 words)
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 surrounding protecting 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.
Long Bio: (143 words)
CMarie Fuhrman is a poet and author whose work is inspired by the Western landscape. She is the author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, the poetry chapbook Camped Beneath the Dam, as well as the co-editor of two significant anthologies, Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. She has poetry and nonfiction published or forthcoming in a variety of publications, including Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, Alta Magazine, Northwest Review, Yellow Medicine Review, Poetry Northwest, Big Sky Journal, and various anthologies. CMarie is the director of the Elk River Writers Workshop and an award-winning columnist for The Inlander. She is the Associate Director and Poetry Director for Western Colorado University's Graduate Program in Creative Writing, where she also teaches Nature Writing. 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.
Short Bio: (118 words)
CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems and the co-editor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. She has published poetry and nonfiction in numerous magazines, including Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, The Ex-Puritan, Northwest Review, Yellow Medicine Review, Poetry Northwest, and various anthologies. CMarie is an award-winning columnist for the Inlander and the Director of the Elk River Writers Workshop. CMarie is the Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University, where she teaches poetry and nature writing. CMarie is the host of Colorado Public Radio's Terra Firma podcast. She is a former Idaho Writer in Residence and lives in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho.
Shorter Bio: (91)
CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Salmon Weather, Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems and co-editor of Cascadia: Art, Ecology, and Poetry and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. She has published or forthcoming poetry and nonfiction in multiple journals and anthologies. CMarie is an award-winning columnist for the Inlander and Director of the Elk River Writers Workshop. She is Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University, where she teaches poetry and nature writing. CMarie is the host of Terra Firma. She resides in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho with dogs and wilderness.
Shortest Bio: (25 words)
Poet, writer, and educator CMarie Fuhrman resides in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho with dogs and a fisheries biologist. Check out everything else she does at cmariefuhrman.com