Dan Murphy

Poet

https://uofupress.com/books/estate-sale/
US
Email: 
dmurphy@bu.edu
Website: 
www.dmurphy.online
Twitter/X: 
@https://bsky.app/profile/dmurphy.bsky.social

Author's Bio

Dan Murphy is the author of Estate Sale (Utah of University Press, 2025) which won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in poetry. A former carpenter and boxer, he teaches at Boston University and Waring School. He recently served as Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Academy. He was awarded a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship at Boston University, and a Grace Abernethy Scholarship at Emory University. His poems appear in Sugar House Review, The Summerset Review, TAB Journal, The Adirondack Review, Slipstream, Terrain.org, and elsewhere.

Education: 
Boston University MFA

Publications & Prizes

Book:
Estate Sale (University of Utah Press, 2025)
Journals:
3Elements Literary Review
,
Adirondack Review
,
Blue Collar Review
,
Café Review
,
Connecticut River Review
,
Lowell Review
,
Lullwater Review
,
Panhandler
,
Rust + Moth
,
Slipstream
,
Sugar House Review
,
Summerset Review
,
Synaesthesia Magazine
,
TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics
,
Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments
,
The Indianapolis Review
Prizes won: 

Winner, Agha Shahid Ali Prize in poetry, University of Utah Press, 2024; Finalist for the Terry J. Cox Poetry Award, Regal Publishing, 2024; Finalist, Best Translations Anthology, Deep Vellum Press, 2024; Finalist for Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, Gunpowder Press, 2022; Shortlisted, Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition, Munster Literary Centre, 2016

 

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More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Born in: 
Boston, MA
Massachusetts
Raised in: 
Lowell, MA
Massachusetts
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Last update: Jan 19, 2025