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Dan Murphy [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
https://uofupress.com/books/estate-sale/
US
Email: 
dmurphy@bu.edu
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.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Twitter/X: 
https://bsky.app/profile/dmurphy.bsky.social
Born in: 
Boston, MA
Massachusetts
Raised in: 
Lowell, MA
Massachusetts
Website: 
http://www.dmurphy.online [2]
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

 

Education: 
Boston University
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/dan_murphy [2] http://www.dmurphy.online