Debra Marquart
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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]
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Born | 1956[1]: 30 Napoleon, North Dakota |
Occupation | Poet, singer-songwriter |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Education | Master of Liberal Arts, Moorhead State University (1990) M.A. Creative Writing, Iowa State University (1993) |
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