Erin Murphy (poet)

Erin Murphy is an American poet. [ [http://bookthatpoet.com/poets/murphyer.html Erin Murphy ] ]

Publications - Books

* "Dislocation and Other Theories" (Word Press, 2008)
* "Science of Desire" (Word Press, 2004), a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize.
* "Too Much of this World" (Mammoth Books), winner of the Anthony Piccione Poetry Prize.

Other Awards

Murphy's other awards include the National Writers Union Poetry Award (judged by Donald Hall), a $5,000 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Award, a Pushcart Prize nomination, the 2006 Foley Poetry Award, University of Massachusetts M.F.A. Poetry Fellowship, a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, and an Individual Creative Artist Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Publications - Other

Murphy's poems have appeared journals and anthologies such as The Georgia Review, Field, Nimrod, The Paterson Literary Review, Literal Latte and Kalliope and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, edited by Billy Collins (Random House, 2005).

Education

* B.A. in English and Philosophy from Washington College
* M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers.

Career

She is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Penn State Altoona.

References

External links

* [http://www.word-press.com/murphy-dislocation.html Erin Murphy/Dislocation and Other Theories at Word Press]
* [http://www.word-press.com/murphy.html Erin Murphy/Science of Desire at Word Press]
* [http://www.uga.edu/garev/winter04/winter04.htm Review of Science of Desire in The Georgia Review; see "Book Briefs"]
* [http://thepedestalmagazine.com/Secure/content/cb.asp?cbid=4098 Review of Science of Desire]
* [http://www.americamagazine.org/foley2006.cfm Erin Murphy at America Magazine]