CMarie Fuhrman is a poet, writer, and teacher. Her work has appeared in Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, Alta Magazine, Northwest Review, Ploughshares, and many others. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Camped Beneath the Dam, and co-editor of Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations, and the award-winning anthology Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry (winner of the PNBA and several other awards). Her forthcoming book, Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, is due out in 2025. CMarie is an award winning columnist for the Inlander and the voice of the NPR podcast, Terra Firma and yearly guide at Fishtrap’s Zumwalt Prairie Outpost. Fuhrman directs the Elk River Writers Workshop and serves as the Associate Director for Western Colorado University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing where she teaches poetry and nature writing. She is a former Idaho Writer in Residence and lives in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho.