Mark Turcotte


Mark Turcotte is a Native American poet. He has published two books of poetry, Exploding Chippewas and Feathered Heart. Road Noise, a chapbook was translated into French by the author Dominique Falkner. Illustrations for "Feathered Heart" and the cover art for "Road Noise" were created by Kathleen Presnell. Turcotte is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. He was born in Lansing, Michigan to a Scots-Irish American mother and Native American father. He spent many of his early childhood years on the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation in addition to stints with migrant camps in western United States before returning to Lansing with his mother and older sister following his father's departure from the family.
Turcotte is currently a visiting assistant professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago, IL.

His works