How Fish Learned to Sing

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 2025

Publication Title

Narrative

Abstract

Debra Marquart, a winner of Narrative’s 2025 Winter Story Contest, is the author of eight books, including the memoir The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere, the essay collection The Night We Landed on the Moon, and the poetry book Gratitude with Dogs under Stars. She directs the MFA program in creative writing and environment at Iowa State University and teaches in the Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program at University of Southern Maine. In addition, Marquart is a singer/songwriter, performing with her jazz-poetry rhythm-and-blues project, the Bone People.

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