Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Biography

Poet, singer and presenter Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer uses
poetry to help people re-engage with the world beyond pagers
and to-do lists. She was recently appointed Poet Laureate of San
Miguel County.

She has authored and edited eight books, including:

• Insatiable: Poems;
• The Christmas Candle Book: Poems of Light;
• The Nature of Love (audio CD);
• Charity: True Stories of Giving & Receiving;
• If You Listen, winner of the Colorado Independent Press Association award and
finalist for the Willa Awards and Mountains & Plains Booksellers Assoc. Award

She’s widely anthologized, including The Geography of Hope: Poets of Colorado’s
Western Slope and the forthcoming Best Women Nature Poets of the West.

In a laughable attempt to make the most out of life, Rosemerry teaches public speaking
for Mesa State College, is a visiting poetry professor at The Colorado College, directs the Telluride Writers Guild, teaches poetry in schools, coordinates the Colorado Online
Poetry Club for high school students, writes an award-winning linguistics column for the
Telluride Daily Planet, writes for magazines including Natural Home and Backpacker,
sings with a 7-woman a cappella group, and is mother and step-mother to two-year-old
Finn and 23-year-old Shawnee. Whew. She’s a spokesperson for December Rain,
Telluride Film Festival and Telluride Mountain Film. She lives with her husband, Eric,
near Telluride, Colorado. Her master’s degree in English Language & Linguistics is from University of Wisconsin—Madison.

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Telluride , Colorado
July 2007