CMarie Fuhrman is the host and writer of the podcast “Terra Firma” from Colorado Public Radio.
Fuhrman is a Colorado native whose work is inspired by the Rocky Mountain West. She is the author of “Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems” and co-editor of two significant anthologies: “Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry” and “Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations.” Fuhrman lives in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho and is the 2021–2023 Idaho Writer in Residence. She is the Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University, where she is the Director of the Poetry Program and teaches nature writing.
On a trail thousands of years old, CMarie sits among the wildflowers near the South Fork Salmon River and watches a tractor cover a fifty-year-old logging road
On a late afternoon in autumn, when the sun bends the shadows and gives a gold tip to the crowns of Doug fir and lodgepole, CMarie Fuhrman walks into the forest with her cello.