Writing Pedagogy: Master Class with Debra Marquart

Soul Bone Lit Fest & MIU's MFA in Creative Writing

This Master Class with Debra Marquart is part of MIU's MFA in Creative Writing Residency.

In this master class, Iowa poet laureate Debra Marquart will discuss writing pedagogy, offering topical, contemporary, and novel approaches to teaching creative writing. Debra Marquart is our current Iowa Poet Laureate and a professor of English at Iowa State University. She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing &amp; Environment at Iowa State University and the Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program at University of Southern Maine. Marquart&#x27;s work has received numerous awards and commendations, including the John Guyon Nonfiction Award, the Mid-American Review Nonfiction Award, The Headwater&#x27;s Prize, the Shelby Foote Prize for the Essay from the Faulkner Society, a Pushcart Prize, and a 2008 NEA Creative Writing Prose Fellowship among others. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including The North American Review, Three Penny Review, New Letters, River City, Crab Orchard Review, Narrative Magazine, The Sun, Brevity, The Normal School, Orion, and Witness. Marquart’s memoir, The Horizontal World: Growing up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere, received the &quot;Elle Lettres&quot; award from Elle Magazine, a New York Times Editors’ Choice commendation, and the 2007 PEN USA Creative Nonfiction Award. Marquart has also released two CDs with her rhythm &amp; blues project, The Bone People, and continues to perform solo as a singer/songwriter.

Writing Pedagogy: Master Class with Debra Marquart

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