Patricia Colleen Murphy

Patricia Colleen Murphy is an American poet and teacher. She founded Superstition Review at Arizona State University, where she teaches creative writing and magazine production.[1][2] She won the 2019 Press 53 Award for Poetry for her second collection Bully Love. She won the 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award judged by Stephen Dunn, and her poetry collection Hemming Flames was published by University Press of Colorado in summer 2016.[3] Hemming Flames went on to win the 2017 Milt Kessler Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, Quarterly West, American Poetry Review, North American Review, Northwest Poetry, Third Coast, Black Warrior Review, Natural Bridge and others.[4] Her work has received awards from the Associated Writing Programs and the Academy of American Poets, Gulf Coast, Bellevue Literary Review, The Madison Review, Glimmer Train Press, and The Southern California Review.[5] A chapter of her memoir-in-progress was published as a chapbook by New Orleans Review.[6]

Murphy speaking at Arizona State University in 2016

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  1. ^ Lawton, Claire (28 August 2010). "31: Patricia Colleen Murphy". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  2. ^ "ASU Directory". Arizona State University. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  3. ^ Utah State University Press (26 January 2016). "Patricia Colleen Murphy wins the 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award!". University Press of Colorado. Archived from the original on 13 July 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  4. ^ "Hemming Flames". University Press of Colorado. 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  5. ^ "Winner of 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award Announced". Utah State University Today. 19 May 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  6. ^ Murphy, Patricia (30 May 2013). Beloved Father Person. New Orleans, LA: Loyola University. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
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