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 teaches creative writing at UT-Dallas and is a submission reader for new literary magazine Sine Qua Non. She was 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. 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.