Erin Murphy (poet)

Erin Murphy is an American poet who is credited with inventing the demi-sonnet.

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

She serves on the English and Creative Writing faculty at The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College, where she is a tenured associate professor.

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

Recognition
Her 2008 collection Too Much of this World won the Anthony Piccione Poetry Prize. Murphy's other awards include the National Writers Union Poetry Award (judged by Donald Hall), the Normal School Poetry Prize judged by Nick Flynn, a $5,000 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Award, numerous Pushcart Prize nominations, the 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 - 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, 2008), winner of the Anthony Piccione Poetry Prize.
 * Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets (State University of New York Press, 2010)
 * Word Problems (Word Press, 2011)
 * Distant Glitter (forthcoming from Word Press, 2013)