Debra Marquart is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences and 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. The Senior Editor of Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, Marquart is the author of eight books. Her work has been featured on NPR and the BBC and has received over 50 grants and awards including an NEA Fellowship, a PEN USA Award, a New York Times Editors’ Choice award, and Elle Magazine’s Elle Lettres Award. A singer-songwriter, Marquart is a member of The Bone People, a jazz-poetry, rhythm & blues project, with whom she has recorded two CDs—A Regular Dervish and Orange Parade. From 2019 to 2024, Marquart served as the Poet Laureate for the State of Iowa. In 2021, she was awarded a Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.
For more information: debramarquart.com
Poetry Inspired by Art on Campus Collection
“PALIMPSEST”, 1997 (Unlimited Possibilities by Doug Shelton)
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