| The Horizontal Life: On Rebellion & Return Debra Marquart will deliver the Annual Regional Studies Lecture at North Dakota State University, Monday October 20, 2003. Her talk will be about a work in progress, The Horizontal Life: On Rebellion & Return.
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| The Horizontal Life is a cultural and natural history that takes on the subject of the rural Midwest. An autobiography about a rebellious farmer's daughter growing up on a North Dakota wheat farm, the book chronicles the impulse toward flight that comes with being born to a harsh and isolated place, and it tells the story of full circle—return and reconciliation with the place of one's origins. (Read more...) | |
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Biographical SketchDebra Marquart is the author of two books of poetry—Everything's a Verb (New Rivers Press, 1995) and From Sweetness (Pearl Editions, 2002). Her short story collection, The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories, published by New Rivers Press in 2001, draws from her experiences as a touring road musician with rock and heavy metal bands in the 1970s and '80s. Marquart continues to perform with her jazz poetry, rhythm & blues project, The Bone People, with whom she released two CDs in 1996: Orange Parade (acoustic/alternative rock) and A Regular Dervish (spoken word/jazz poetry). Ms. Marquart's work has appeared in numerous journals such as North American Review, Three Penny Review, New Letters, River City, Arts & Letters, Zone 3, Cumberland Poetry Review, Kalliope, Southern Poetry Review, Witness, and The Sun Magazine. Marquart has received scholarships and fellowships to the Breadloaf Writers' Conference and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Her poems, stories, and essays have received numerous awards and honors, including the New Letters Nonfiction Award (1989, 1995, 1998, 1999), the Capricorn Fiction Award, sponsored by the Writers Voice of the Westside Y (1998), the Sue Saniel Elkind Award from Kalliope (1997), the Headwaters Prize (1999), the Pearl Poetry Award (2000), and a Pushcart Prize (2001).
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| An associate professor of English, Debra Marquart is the poetry editor of Flyway Literary Review and the Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at Iowa State University. She is currently at work on two projects: a memoir, The Horizontal Life: On Rebellion and Return, about growing up a rebellious farmer's daughter on a North Dakota wheat farm; and a novel, set in Greece, titled The Olive Harvest. |
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