Debra Marquart

Debra Marquart
Born1956[1]: 30 
Napoleon, North Dakota
OccupationPoet, singer-songwriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
EducationMaster of Liberal Arts, Moorhead State University (1990)
M.A. Creative Writing, Iowa State University (1993)
Website
debramarquart.com

Debra Marquart is an American poet and musician from the small town of Napoleon, North Dakota. Since 1992 she has been performing as singer-songwriter with the band The Bone People. After graduating with master's degrees from Moorhead State University and Iowa State University (ISU), she became an English professor at ISU, directing an MFA program in "creative writing and environment". In 2014, she taught writers' workshops in Bakken oil field communities most affected by hydraulic fracking,[2] where "many people ... are despairing – feeling that they have been declared an energy sacrifice zone."[3] She is the Poet Laureate of Iowa since 2019.[4] In 2021 she received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.[4]

  1. ^ The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere. Counterpoint Books. 2006. pp. 304. ISBN 1582433631.
  2. ^ David Boyce (February 2, 2014). "Following Oil Boom In N. Dakota: A Cultural Blooming?". All Things Considered. NPR. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
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  4. ^ a b "Poets Laureate Fellows Interview". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved August 3, 2022.