Joan Murray

Joan Murray (born in New York City in 1945) is an American poet.She graduated from Hunter College and later earned an M.A. from New York University. She has been the poet in residence at the New York State Writer's Institute as well as spending time at Yaddo, an artist's colony in upstate New York. She has been the recipient of the Poetry Society of America's Gordon Barber Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship as well as a winner of the National Poetry Series and the Wesleyan New Poets Series. [ [http://www.joanmurray.com/ Joan Murray: poet, writer, playwright, and editor ] ] She currently lives and works in Old Chatham, New York.

Her ambition to be an artist was postponed when she entered college and became increasingly interested in the study of literature.

Bibliography

* "Poems to Live By in Troubling Times", Beacon Press, 2006
* "Dancing on the Edge", Beacon Press, 2002
* "Poems to Live By in Uncertain Times", Beacon Press, 2001
* "Looking for the Parade", W.W. Norton & Co, 1999 (winner of the 1998 National Poetry Series)
* "Queen of the Mist: The Forgotten Heroine of Niagara", Beacon Press, 1999
* "The Same Water", Wesleyan University Press, 1990 (Wesleyan New Poets Series winner)
* "Egg Tooth", 1975

External links

* [http://www.joanmurray.com/ Joan Murray's Official Site]
* [http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/murray.html New York State Writers Institute page]
* [http://www.nortonpoets.com/murrayj.htm Norton Poets Online page for Joan Murray]
* [http://www.alittlepoetry.com/murray.html Online bio and Poem by Joan Murray at alittlepoetry.com]

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