Monika Rose was appointed Poet Laureate of Calaveras County, 2024-2026. She co-directed the first three Annual Poetry Events in Calaveras County, 2022-2024, and organized the first annual Mother Lode Book Festival in May, 2025, and is organizing a November Poetry Celebration for 2025 and an anthology based on poetry and prose about the North Grove giant Sequoia at Calaveras Big Trees State Park. Her new Middle Grade poetic narrative novel, Moths on a Limb, was published November 2024. More info here.
