In 1979, he, Ellen, and their son, Jeremiah, moved to Wisconsin, where Marshall joined the Journalism Department and the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1988 until his retirement from UW in 2009, he helped to create and taught annually at a variety of workshops and retreats including the Weekend Retreat for Novelists, the Writer’s Institute, and Write by the Lake. In 2003, Marshall joined the fledgling UW Odyssey Project where for the next 18 years he passed along his enthusiasm for language and writing to nearly 600 Odyssey students.
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