Judea DeMaris

Jude is a creative writer with a focus on nonfiction magical realism in poetry and short stories. She works in the realm of creating the world that already exists inside one's head and translating it onto paper. Her works focuses on nonfiction stories of childhood, the thin line that separates what can be traumatizing and what can be healing to write, and the lyrical and fluidity of both contemporary poetry and nonfiction short stories. She is inspired by life and the ebb and flow of humanity and the many different cultures that all have the same language: the language of storytelling. Jude was an editor for the literary magazine Upper Mississippi Harvest and has been published a number of times in multiple genres of nonfiction writing. She is excited to teach others the language of story so they can speak through their art.