about

Samantha Strong Murphey (she/her) has an MFA in Poetry from NYU. Her work has been supported by Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Vermont Studio Center. She taught creative writing at UT-Dallas and is a submission reader for Sontag Mag. Her manuscript “Bad Prophet” was a finalist for the Trio Award from Trio House Press.

Sam was also a finalist for Ninth Letter's Regeneration Prize and Gulf Coast's Barthelme Prize, and her work has appeared in Rattle, the North American Review, and the Crab Creek Review and is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, RADAR, SWWIM and elsewhere.

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.