Sabina Murray

Sabina Murray

Sabina Murray (born in 1968) is an award-winning Filipina American screenwriter, and a novelist currently a Professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Background and career

The daughter of an American father and a Filipina mother, Murray grew up in Australia, Pennsylvania, and the Philippines. She received her B.A. in art history from Mount Holyoke College in 1989 and her M.A. in English and creative writing from The University of Texas in 1994. She also completed post-graduate study in fiction from The University of Texas in 1994. She has previously been a "Roger Muray Writer-in-Residence" at Phillips Academy (Andover, Massachusetts) and was published in "Ploughshares", "Ontario Review", and the "New England Review". She was also the fiction judge for the Drunken Boat’s First Annual Panliterary Awards.

Murray currently lives in western Massachusetts, where she is on the fiction faculty at University of Massachusetts Amherst (along with Chris Bachelder and Noy Holland).

Awards and fellowships

*Several major awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2003).
*"A Carnivore's Inquiry", was named a "Best Book of the Year" by The "Chicago Tribune".
*Fellowship from the Michener Center at The University of Texas, Austin
*Bunting fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
*Nominated for the Best First Screenplay Award (Independent Spirit Awards 2005)
*Guggenheim Fellowship 2007

creenplays

*"The Beautiful Country" (2004) (Terrence Malick, Nick Nolte, Bai Ling)

Books

*"Slow Burn"
*"The Caprices" (Houghton Mifflin)
*"A Carnivore's Inquiry" (Grove/Atlantic)
*"Forgery" (Grove/Atlantic) (Due out May 28, 2007)

External links

*imdb name | id=1182012 | name=Sabina Murray
* [http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?z=y&EAN=43396108653&VIEW=CCC The Beautiful Country at Barnes & Noble]
* [http://www.bookpage.com/0408bp/fiction/carnivores_inquiry.html Book Page Review]
* [http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=7743 Sabina Murray's page at Houghton Mifflin]
* [http://www.fictionawardwinners.com/reviews.cfm?id=406 The Caprices at Fiction Award Winners Dot Com]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DEEDF1139F933A15752C0A9649C8B63 Review in The New York Times]
* [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleid=7468 Review in Ploughshares]
* [http://smallspiralnotebook.com/reviews/sabinamurray.shtml Review at Small Spiral Notebook]
* [http://www.umass.edu/english/eng/mfa/ The MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts]
* [http://stumpedmagazine.com/Articles/beautiful-country.html Nick Nolte Interview About "The Beautiful Country" in Stumped Magazine]


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