by marquart@iastate.edu | Aug 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Debra Marquart’s essay, “How Fish Learned to Sing,” received the Winter 2025 Story Award from Narrative Magazine. The essay–which is a chapter from Marquart’s in-progress acoustic ecology on music, singing, the spectacle of performance,...
by marquart@iastate.edu | Dec 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
On this November 14, 2023 episode of Talk of Iowa, Debra Marquart joins host Charity Nebbe to discuss her new collection Gratitude with Dogs Under Stars. Click to Listen to Podcast
by marquart@iastate.edu | Dec 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Debra Marquart’s long poem, “Leave it in the Ground,” selected from international pool for shortlist honors. Winners in both categories (poetry and fiction) will be announced at a gala in Manchester UK on December 8th. The Poetry Prize...
by marquart@iastate.edu | May 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Silver medal honors in the memoir category go to Debra Marquart’s most recent book, The Night We Landed on the Moon: Essays Between Exile & Belonging. The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award program, which include fifty-six categories recognizing excellence in book...
by marquart@iastate.edu | Mar 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Iowa Poet Laureate Debra Marquart was interviewed by the Academy of American Poets about her 2021-2022 Poets Laureate Fellowship. Click here to read full interview. Poets.org: Has being a poet laureate changed your relationship to your own writing in any way? DM:...
by marquart@iastate.edu | Feb 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Sing the Unstoried Landscape: Debra Marquart’s The Night We Landed on the Moon and the Poetics of Place Linda Mahal interviews author and faculty member Debra Marquart for the Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program. In this wide-ranging interview, Marquart reflects on...
