Erin Murphy

Poet

Altoona, PA

Pennsylvania US

Email:

erinmurphy@psu.edu

Website:

www.erin-murphy.com

Author's Bio

Erin Murphy's most recent book of poems is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and on Garrison Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac." She is Poetry Editor of the Summerset Review and co-editor of three anthologies published by the University of Nebraska Press and SUNY Press. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College, where she has received the university-wide Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Education:

University of Massachusetts, Amherst MFA

Publications & Prizes

Books:

Human Resources (Salmon Poetry, 2022)

Taxonomies (WordTech Editions, 2022)

Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine (University of Nebraska Press, 2019)

Assisted Living (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2018)

Creating Nonfiction: Twenty Essays and Interviews with the Writers (SUNY Press, 2016)

Ancilla (Lamar University Literary Press, 2014)

Distant Glitter (WordTech Editions, 2013)

Word Problems (Word Press, 2011)

Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets (SUNY Press, 2010)

Too Much of This World (Mammoth Books, 2008)

Dislocation and Other Theories (Word Press, 2008)

Science of Desire (Word Press, 2004)

Chapbook:

Remorse Code (Seven Kitchens Press, 2018)

Prizes won:

Rattle Poetry Prize Readers' Choice Award; Normal School Poetry Prize; two Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Gold awards; National Writer's Union Poetry Award judged by Donald Hall; the Foley Poetry Award; Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Award; Anthony Piccione Poetry Prize; Paterson Award for Literary Excellence; "Best of the Net" award judged by Patricia Smith; and grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Maryland State Arts Council.

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

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Last update: Feb 19, 2022