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Vivian Demuth was educated in the Canadian
Rocky
Mountains
where she has lived and worked as a forestry fire
lookout and park ranger for over twenty years. She has degrees in science, fine
art, English and creative writing. As a poet/fiction writer,
artist/naturalist, her work has appeared in various Canadian, U.S., and
European anthologies and journals, including: The Boreal
Factor, Nose Mountain Moods, Venus Rising (forthcoming), Powwow:
American Short Fiction from Then to Now, Writing the Land:
Alberta through its Poets, Hampton Shorts, Long Shot, The Prairie
Journal, The Canadian Alpine Journal, Political
Affairs, Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, Other Voices, La Revue Commune, and Venus Rising.
Vivian Demuth's latest book is a volume of poetry, Fire Watcher, published by Guernica Editions (2013). Demuth’s first novel, Eyes of the
Forest, was published in 2007 by Smoky Peace Press in
Alberta
. Novelist Kaylie Jones called it "a breath of fresh air"
reminding us "of what we do not know about the wild." She is also the
author of a poetry collection, Breathing Nose Mountain (Long Shot Productions, 2004).
She has read her poems and short stories on CBC public radio in
Canada
, and she received the Sarah Tucker
Fiction Award from
Long Island
University
. In 2006, she
was a writer-in-residence at
Can
Serrat
International
Artist
Center
in
Spain
. She has taught creative writing workshops and worked in homeless outreach centers. In the summer, she hosts an annual Poetry on the Peaks event
in the foothills of the Canadian
Rockies
.
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