CMarie Fuhrman

CMarie Fuhrman is an award-winning multi-genre writer and educator whose work serves as both a love letter to and an advocacy for the Western landscape. Born and raised in the shadow of the Rockies, she was introduced to wild places by parents who lived close to the land, instilling in her an early understanding of Ethical Interdependence. For over a decade, she has resided in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho, a place that has become inherent to her identity and the heartbeat of her art.
 

CMarie’s writing often works at the seams of Indigenous understanding and Western experience, exploring where the destruction of the land and the erasure of Native women’s bodies are painfully mirrored. Through her poetry and her columns for The Inlander, she concerns herself with the persistence of Native issues and the shared vulnerabilities of beings and place.
 

She is the author of the acclaimed Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, as well as I Took You With Me: Collected Columns and the poetry chapbook Camped Beneath the Dam. She has co-edited two landmark, award-winning anthologies: Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. Her current creative work continues to explore the intersections of identity, including an eco-romance and her forthcoming memoir, Cowbird, which reflects on her journey as a bi-racial (Native and Eastern European) adoptee navigating the complexities of heritage and belonging.
 

Beyond the page, CMarie is the host of Terra Firma, a Colorado Public Radio program, and a former Idaho Writer in Residence. She is the founder of the Confluence Writing Community and the Director of the Elk River Writers Workshop, organizations dedicated to fostering the next generation of voices at the intersection of art and ecology.

A seasonal fire lookout and a devoted advocate for wild rivers and grizzlies, she serves as the Associate Director and Poetry Concentration Director for the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University where she is faculty for nature writing and poetry. Whether mending narratives or advocating for the land, CMarie’s work is a testament to the belief that our stories and the earth are one.