Cheyenne Marco

Cheyenne Marco teaches undergraduate English online and at USD Sioux Falls. She draws inspiration for her writing and teaching from her rural roots. She serves as faculty advisor for VLP and as SD Region Writing Coordinator for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

Creative Writing, Business Writing, Composition,
and Introduction to Literature

Creative Writing, Rural Studies/Literature, Great Plains Literature, Frontier Literature, Agrarianism, and Nature/Environmental Writing

Citations listed below are presented in a standardized, modified format for display purposes only. They do not necessarily reflect the preferred style and conventions of the faculty member or discipline.

Marco, Cheyenne. The Big Sioux River. In City of Hustle, editors Jon Lauck & Patrick Hicks, 59-73. Cleveland, OH: Belt Publishing, 2022.
Marco, Cheyenne. Review of Red Dirt Country: Field Notes & Essays on Nature by John Gifford., Editors Ramón Guerra, 313. Vol. 41, Iss. 3-4 Lincoln, NE: Great Plains Quarterly, 2022. (DOI: 10.1353/gpq.2021.0026)
Marco, Cheyenne. Prairie Fire. In South Dakota in Poems: An Anthology, editors Christine Stewart-Nunez, 90. Brookings, SD: South Dakota State Poetry Society, 2020.
Marco, Cheyenne. “Review of Larkin Powell’s Great Plains Birds”. Iss. 14 The Book Smuggler's Den, 2020.
Marco, Cheyenne. “Law of Thermodynamics” , 35. Brookings, SD: Oakwood, 2020.
Marco, Cheyenne. "Review of Peter Longo’s Great Plains Politics". Salt Lake City, UT: Quarterly West, 2019.
Marco, Cheyenne. Back Burn., Editors John Andrews, 67-69. Iss. January/February 2019 Yankton, SD: South Dakota Magazine, 2019.
Marco, Cheyenne. “Review of Jennifer Case’s Sawbill: A Search for Place” . Gravel, 2018.
Marco, Cheyenne. "One of Two", 105-120. Vol. 18, Iss. 1 Cape Girardeau MO: The Big Muddy, 2018.
Marco, Cheyenne. “Archimedes’ Principle of Buoyancy” , 83. Brookings, SD: Oakwood, 2018.
Marco, Cheyenne. “Review of Dan O’Brien’s Great Plains Bison” . Bellingham, WA: Empty Mirror, 2017.
Marco, Cheyenne. "Invasive", 69-70. Vol. 1, Iss. 1 In Layman’s Terms , 2017.
Marco, Cheyenne. “Religious Mania,” “I Am,” “St. Johanna,” and “Prayer” , 33-36. Dappled Things, 2017.
Marco, Cheyenne. “Deadly Sins” and “The Outdoor Code". Vol. 26 Tipton Poetry Journal, 2016.
Marco, Cheyenne. Commandments. The Voices Project, 2016.
Marco, Cheyenne. "Cadavers". Vol. 4, Iss. 1 Richmond, VA: Medical Literary Messenger, 2016.
Marco, Cheyenne. “Amendments” and “The Method.” . Turk's Head Review, 2016.
Marco, Cheyenne. "Old Orchard". Poetry WTF?!, 2016.
Marco, Cheyenne. Homefront, 27-30. There Are No Ghosts Here, 2016.
Marco, Cheyenne. “The Sins of Eve” , 6-17. Vol. 3, Iss. 2 Rosemont, PA: Rathalla Review, 2016.
Marco, Cheyenne. “Playing with Fire and Water: Dualities in Bud Smith’s ‘F-250’”. Vol. 1 Brooklyn, 2015.
Marco, Cheyenne. "Sarah's Tree", 36-46. Mitchell, SD: Prairie Winds, 2015.
Marco, Cheyenne. "Drowned". Microfiction Monday, 2014.
Marco, Cheyenne. “Stationed by the Pen, Stationed by the Plow” , 59-63. Vol. 4, Iss. 1 MN: Lake Region Review, 2014.
Marco, Cheyenne. “Back Burn”, 33-45. Vol. 3, Iss. 1 MN: Lake Region Review, 2013.

Marco, Cheyenne, and Rudnik, Joshua, Mining 'Me: A Criti-Creative examination of Identity and Place. Presented at the John R. Milton Writer's Conference, Vermillion, SD. (September 17, 2021)
Marco, Cheyenne, “Nonfiction Session II" . Presented at the John R. Milton Writer's Conference, Vermillion, SD. (October 26, 2018)
Marco, Cheyenne, "“Water, Water Everywhere: A Writer’s Perspective on Water Quality in the Northern Plains” . Presented at the IDEAFest, Vermillion, SD. (April 05, 2018)
Marco, Cheyenne, “CW: Memoir and Activism in the West” . Presented at the Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association, Minneapolis, MN. (October 27, 2017)
Marco, Cheyenne, “On Impersonal Things: The Failure of Classical Education in Willa Cather’s My Ántonia” . Presented at the Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association, Minneapolis, MN. (October 26, 2017)
Marco, Cheyenne, “The Poetics of Identity and Violence”. Presented at the Cultures of Change: Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Research Conference,, Vermillion, SD. (March 24, 2017)
Marco, Cheyenne, Forever Morphing., Washington D.C.. (February 11, 2017)
Marco, Cheyenne, Featured Author: Cheyenne Marco. Presented at the LiTrash, Vermillion, SD. (January 26, 2017)
Marco, Cheyenne, “The Big Train that Couldn’t: The Triumph of the Agrarian Myth in Norris’s The Octopus”. Presented at the John R. Milton Writer's Conference, Vermillion, SD. (October 29, 2016)
Marco, Cheyenne, “Creative Readings/Multiple Genres: Spaces and Places II.”. Presented at the John R. Milton Writer's Conference, Vermillion, SD. (October 29, 2016)
Marco, Cheyenne, “Condemning the Home: Domestic Oppression in Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette” . Presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 2016 Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. (October 07, 2016)
Marco, Cheyenne, "Homefront" . Presented at the Imagine Fergus Falls Creative Writers Open Reading, Fergus Falls, MN. (February 26, 2016)
Marco, Cheyenne, “So Ram Made a Commercial” . Presented at the Sigma Tau Delta High Plains Conference, Hayes, KS. (October 24, 2015)
Marco, Cheyenne, “Writing the Rural Narrative” . Presented at the IDEAFest, Vermillion, SD. (April 16, 2015)
Marco, Cheyenne, “A Reading eXperiment” . Presented at the Festival of Language: 2015 AWP Off-Site Reading, Minneapolis, MN. (April 09, 2015)
Marco, Cheyenne, "Stationed by the Plow". Presented at the Minnesota State University Mankato English Graduate Conference, Mankato, MN. (April 2014)
Marco, Cheyenne, "Back Burn". Presented at the Lake Region Review Public Reading, Alexandria, MN. (December 2013)
Marco, Cheyenne, “'Traveling from Here to There’: The Empathy of Writing Geography and Self”. Presented at the John R. Milton Writer's Conference, Vermillion, SD. (November 02, 2013)

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