Debra Marquart

DEBRA MARQUART is the coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at Iowa State University. She is the author of The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories, and the poetry collections Everything’s a Verb and From Sweetness. Marquart’s essays have appeared in Best American Essays, and she has won the Shelby Foote Nonfiction Prize (Faulkner Society), the Writer’s Digest Nonfiction Award, and a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Ames, Iowa.

She is the author of:

The Horizontal World: Growing Up in the Middle of Nowhere