about

Samantha Strong Murphey (she/her) has an MFA in Poetry from NYU’s Writer’s Workshop in Paris. Her work has been supported by Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Vermont Studio Center. She teaches creative writing at UT-Dallas and is a submission reader for new literary magazine Sine Qua Non. Before poetry, Sam worked as a journalist and has a rich and lengthy unwritten resume as a full-time caregiver to her three children, a rescue cat, and a rescue dog. Sam grew up split between Cincinnati, Ohio and Fayetteville, Arkansas, but has, for the last decade, resided in Oak Cliff, the coolest neighborhood in Dallas, Texas.