CMarie Fuhrman is an award-winning author, poet, and teacher whose work is deeply rooted in the Western landscape. She is the author of the essay collection Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, chosen as a Great Read from Great Places, and the poetry chapbook Camped Beneath the Dam. A passionate community builder and advocate for the land, she co-edited two influential, award-winning anthologies: Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. A former Idaho Writer in Residence, CMarie’s writing is featured in Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, Alta Magazine, Big Sky Journal, and Poetry Northwest. She is the host of Colorado Public Radio’s Terra Firma and an award-winning columnist for the Inlander. CMarie serves as the associate director of Western Colorado University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing and is the director of the Elk River Writers Workshop. Committed to fostering inclusive literary spaces, she is also the founder of the Confluence Writing Community. She resides in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho, where she spends her summers working as a part-time fire lookout, a role that informs her advocacy for both the human and more-than-human inhabitants of the land. Catch up with her at CMarieFuhrman.com.
