Rich Murphy

My fifth book-length collection of poems Asylum Seeker was published in 2018 by Poetry Press at Press Americana. The book will be the third in a trilogy: Americana that won the 2013 Press Americana Prize; Body Politic that was published by Prolific Press in January 2017; and now “Asylum Seeker.” Press Americana is the publishing arm of The Institute for American Studies and Creative Writing. My poetry has won two national book awards: Gival Press Poetry Prize 2008 for Voyeur and in 2013. The Apple in the Monkey Tree was published by Codhill Press in 2007. Chapbooks include Family Secret (Finishing Line Press), Hunting and Pecking (Ahadada Books), Phoems for Mobile Vices (BlazeVox), and Great Grandfather (Pudding House Publications). I am pleased to announce that in December 2016 my book-length manuscript “Minds of Europe: A Genealogy to the Fat Man” was a shortlisted finalist in the Beverly Prize in the UK, and my manuscript “Storage Shed” was chosen as a finalist in the 2016 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Contest. Recent poetry may be found in The Transnational – A Literary Magazine; Coldnoon: International Journal of Travel Writing & Travelling Cultures; BlazeVox; Futures Trading; Pennsylvania Review; Revue Post; Former People; Fjord Review; E.ratio; Literati Quarterly; Pembroke; Otoliths; Two Thirds North; Euphony; West Texas Literary Review; James Dickey Review; Red Savina Review; Big Bridge; Blast Furnace; Review Americana; Lalitamba; Blue Fifth Review; Harbinger Asylum; Sein und Werden; and Stark: Worldwide Wisehouse. Recent prose scholarship on poetry and poetics has been published in Zeteo Journal; Imaginary Syllabus, Anthology chapters, Palm Press; Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning; The International Journal of the Humanities; International Journal of Critical Pedagogy; Reconfigurations: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics; The Journal of Ecocriticism; and New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing.