About

Naomi DeMarinis is a writer, an artist, and a prospective PhD student with an interest in studying creative practice in transdisciplinary research and research communication.

In February 2024, three weeks after she left her marriage of 20 years and moved out of her home, she was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia, a rare and rapidly fatal form of blood cancer. Because she was newly single, she had to maintain employment while in treatment and largely pretend that she wasn’t sick, an experience, she now realizes, that many people can probably relate to. Her new perspective is something like this, “You never know what people are going through.”

She finished treatment in November 2024, and her current work is influenced by that experience, but she’s also survived other things. Survival, endurance, awe, and encounters with the numinous underpin her essays and poems. Her writing works toward transformation into new ways of being and seeing.

Recent Publications

Boned, Unbroken

The Scottish play, bioStories

Packing to leave, Pithead Chapel

Earlier Publications

Imagining my sister in North Dakota, Frontier Poetry

Parting, Emerge Literary Journal

Clay, Emerge Literary Journal

All that’s left is still not yours, Three Seasons of Winter, a Dear Butte Anthology

Why the great silence, Three Seasons of Winter, a Dear Butte Anthology

Katabasis, Bright Bones, Contemporary Montana Writing, Open Country Press

Footsteps, Heartbeat, Fire, Voice, Sonder review

Previous work has also appeared in The Rumpus, the Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Swamp Pink, and Calyx.