Debra Marquart was named Iowa’s Poet Laureate in the spring of 2019. Last month she was named one of 23 Poets Laureate Fellows for 2021 by the Academy of American Poets. The second award goes a long ...

For her latest book, "The Horizontal World: Growing up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere," Debra Marquart returned to her North Dakota roots. Now the Pushcart Prize-winner brings it all back home talking ...

Debra Marquart’s latest book of essays begins, like most things in the Midwest, with the weather and 13 different ways to talk about it. From there, the essays carry us around the world and back again ...

This is the latest entry in a series of articles telling the personal stories of Iowa State University faculty and scientists whose work is changing the world for the better. Click here for the ...

Iowa’s new poet laureate is an English professor at Iowa State University who says life’s journey has led her down some unusual detours. Sixty-three-year-old Debra Marquart grew up in the small town ...

WATERLOO — The Waterloo Public Library will welcome Debra Marquart, Iowa’s poet laureate, at 6 p.m. on June 29. The event will have music, storytelling and poetry. Marquart has written seven books, ...

FARGO — There is a popular adage English teachers pass on to their students: Write what you know. The idea is that by writing about their experiences or what they’ve seen or heard, their words will be ...

The Warren County Community College Visiting Authors Series will feature a reading by Debra Marquart, author of "The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere," on Tuesday, Oct. 23.

A national literary journal published by Iowa State’s English Department has spun-off a book publisher, Flyway Books, which is celebrating its first imprint — a children’s book titled “A Moo Cow Came ...