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He is a proud Chicago Public Schools alumnus. Nate was born at Roseland Community Hospital and raised in the West Pullman neighborhood of Chicago.
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As a young person Nate won the Louder Than A Bomb Youth Poetry Festival in Chicago and was a finalist at Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam. Nate is a member of The Dark Noise Collective and co-directs (with Eve Ewing) Crescendo Literary, a partnership that develops community-engaged arts events and educational resources as a form of cultural organizing. Marshall has taught in a number of traditional and community-based settings including Wabash College, Young Chicago Authors, Northwestern University, InsideOut Literary Arts, and the University of Michigan. He previously served as the Assistant Director of Wabash College’s Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies and the Director of National Programs at Young Chicago Authors. He is an assistant professor of English at Colorado College. He co-wrote Chicago Public School’s first literary arts curriculum and develops lesson plans using creative writing to help participants discuss social justice, mental health, community development, and other topics pertinent to social science.
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Marshall is an experienced and versatile educator, working with learners of all ages in both academic and community settings. His next book, FINNA, is due out in 2020 from One World/Random House. His last rap album, Grown came out in 2015 with his group Daily Lyrical Product. , which was produced by Make-Believe Association. He also wrote the audio drama Bruh Rabbit & The Fantastic Telling of Remington Ellis, Esq.
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Marshall co-wrote the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks with Eve Ewing, produced by Manual Cinema and commissioned by the Poetry Foundation.
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He is also an editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and he also co-curates The BreakBeat Poets series for Haymarket Books. His book, Wild Hundreds, was honored with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s award for Poetry Book of the Year and The Great Lakes College Association’s New Writer Award. Nate Marshall is an award-winning author, editor, poet, playwright, performer, educator, speaker, and rapper.