BIO & CONTACT INFO
Vivian Demuth was educated in the Canadian Rocky Mountains where she has lived and worked as an outdoor educator, 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) Writing the Land: Alberta through its Poets, Powwow: American Short Fiction from Then to Now (forthcoming), 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.
In the summer, Vivian hosts an annual Poetry on the Peaks event at Nose Mountain, see www.poetryonthepeaks.wordpress.com Her poetry and art web site is: www.poetspath.com/exhibits/viviandemuth Vivan is a member of PEN and the Writers Union of Canada. In recent winters, she has lived in New York City, where she has taught art and creative writing and worked in an outreach center for the city’s homeless. Her videos can be viewed at www.youtube.com/viviandemuth and www.vdemuth.blogspot.com. With the assistance of a Canada Council Travel grant, Vivian was a writer-in-residence at Can Serrat Artisit’s Center near Barcelona, Spain in November 2006 and she read at Shakespeare & Company in Paris, France November 27, 2006.
She can be reached via cybridities@hotmail.com
