Deb Marsh:

Deb began attending the Ann Arbor Poetry Slam in 1990 and since then has gone on to help organize and compete in numerous national and local poetry slams and continues to work as one of the three organizers of the Ann Arbor Poetry Slam.

Achievements

• Featured Poet at the Del Rio Feed the Poet Series 1998, 2000
• Featured Poet at the Gotham City Women’s Poetry Reading 1995
• Featured Poet at the Guild House Poetry Series 1998 and 2001
• Coached the 2000 Ann Arbor National Poetry Slam team to semi-finals
• Published a book of her own poetry by The Wordsmith Press.

Deb has been a high-school English teacher since 1983 and is currently the Language Arts Department Chair, Director of Debate and Forensics, Teacher of English Language Arts at Dexter High School inDexter, Michigan. She also bought in the Poet-a-Month program to her school where poets visit the school and work with students to improve their own writing and delivery. She has hosted youth poetry readings and coached students to participate in the National Youth Poetry Slam.