Mark Turcotte

{{short description|American poet}}

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Mark Turcotte (born 1958) 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/mark-turcotte|title=Mark Turcotte {{!}} Poetry Foundation|date=31 January 2023 }} He was born in Lansing, Michigan to a Scots-Irish American mother an 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.{{Cite web |title=An Interview with Mark Turcotte |url=https://www.triquarterly.org/the-latest-word/interviews/interview-mark-turcotte#:~:text=Mark%20Turcotte%20is%20an%20Ojibwe,throughout%20the%20western%20United%20States. |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=TriQuarterly |language=en-US}}

Turcotte is currently a visiting assistant professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago, IL.{{Cite web |title=Mark Turcotte {{!}} Faculty {{!}} English {{!}} Academics {{!}} College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences {{!}} DePaul University, Chicago |url=https://las.depaul.edu/academics/english/faculty/Pages/mark-turcotte.aspx |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=las.depaul.edu}}