Peter E. Murphy

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Ventnor City, NJ
New Jersey US
Email: 
peteremurphy9@gmail.com
Website: 
www.peteremurphy.com
Twitter/X: 
@MurphyWriting

Author's Bio

Peter E. Murphy is the author of eleven books and chapbooks of poetry and prose. His memoir, Once Upon a Time You Lived in a Castle about growing up in Wales and New York, is forthcoming from TopLight, an imprint of McFarland Books. Peter is the Founder of Murphy Writing of Stockton University in Atlantic City, where he runs programs for writers and teachers in the U.S. and abroad.

Writers Retreats: 
Millay Arts
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Yaddo

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Chapbook:
Looking for Thelma (Moonstone Press, 2020)
Journals:
The Common
,
Guernica Magazine
,
Harpur Palate
,
Hippocampus Magazine
,
Lindenwood Review
,
Litro Magazine
,
New Welsh Review
,
Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts
,
Sun Magazine

Poetry

Book:
Stubborn Child (Jane Street Press, 2005)
Chapbooks:
Mean Time (Moonstone Press, 2019)
,
The Man Who Never Was (Unsolicited Press, 2018)
,
I Thought I Was Going To Be Okay (Diode Editions, 2016)
,
The Last Pub On Earth (Five Oaks Press, 2016)
Journals:
Laurel Review
,
New York Quarterly
,
Witness
,
Rattle
Prizes won: 

He has received fellowships for writing and teaching from The Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Folger Shakespeare Library, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Welsh American
Born in: 
Newport, Wales,
United Kingdom
Raised in: 
New York City, NY
New York
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Last update: Jan 24, 2024