Debra Marquart

Debra Marquart is the author of two poetry collections: Everything's a Verb and From Sweetness—and a memoir, The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere, published by Counterpoint in 2006. Marquart is also the author of a short story collection, The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories, which draws on her experiences traveling as a singer with hard rock and heavy metal bands in the 1970s and early 1980s. She continues to perform with The Bone People, her jazz-poetry, rhythm & blue project, with whom she has released two CDs: Orange Parade (alternative rock) and A Regular Dervish (jazz poetry). Marquart's work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, the Shelby Foote Prize for the Essay from the Faulkner Society, the 2007 PEN USA Creative Nonfiction Award, the Elle Lettres Award from Elle Magazine, and a 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Marquart is a professor of English in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment at Iowa State University.