Debra Marquart
Short Biography
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Debra Marquart
is a professor of English at Iowa State University. She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment at
Iowa State University and the Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program at University of Southern Maine. Marquart's work has received numerous awards and commendations,
including the John Guyon Nonfiction Award, the Mid-American Review Nonfiction Award, The Headwater's Prize, the Shelby
Foote Prize for the Essay from the Faulkner Society, a Pushcart Prize, and a 2008 NEA Creative Writing Prose Fellowship among
others. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including The North American
Review, Three Penny Review, New Letters, River City, Crab Orchard Review, Narrative Magazine, The Sun, Brevity, The Normal
School, Orion, and Witness. Marquart’s
memoir, The Horizontal World: Growing up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere, received the "Elle Lettres" award from Elle
Magazine, a New York Times Editors’ Choice commendation, and
the 2007 PEN USA Creative Nonfiction Award. Marquart is also the author of two
poetry collections—Everything's
a Verb and From Sweetness—and a collection of interrelated short stories, The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories, which
draws on her experiences as a female road musician. She has released two CDs
with her rhythm & blues project, The Bone People, and continues to perform solo as a singer/songwriter.
Marquart’s latest book, a poetry collection, Small Buried
Things, is forthcoming from New Rivers Press in 2015. She is currently at
work on a nonfiction book, “The Listening Room: Notes on a Life in Music,” which is an acoustic ecology, an autobiography
of catastrophe, a meditation on the pleasures and privileges of being a singer, and a chronicle of a life filled with
making and listening to music.
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