SpokenHeard with Nate Marshall and Susan Dobbe Chase

Nate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. He was the star of the award winning full-length documentary “Louder Than A Bomb” and has been featured on HBO’s “Brave New Voices. He is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan and received his BA at Vanderbilt University. His work has appeared in Muzzle, Learn Then Burn, Vinyl Poetry, The Spoken Word Revolution: Redux, on Chicago Public Radio and in many other publications.

Nate has been a teaching artist with organizations such as Young Chicago Authors, InsideOut Detroit, and Southern Word. Nate is the founder of the Lost Count Scholarship Fund that promotes youth violence prevention in Chicago.

Nate has won 2014 University of Michigan Academy of American Poets Graduate Prize,

2013 Guild Complex Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award, 2013 Avery & Jules Hopwood Poetry Award, 2013 Michael R. Gutterman Poetry Award,
a 2013 Indiana Review Poetry Prize Finalist,
2013 “Discovery”/ Boston Review Poetry Contest Semifinalist, a 2008 Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Finalist, 2008 Louder Than A Bomb Chicago Youth Poetry Slam Champion.

Nate has performed poetry at venues and universities across the US, Canada, and South Africa. He is also a rapper. Nate can be reached at nathaniel.a.marshall@gmail.com.