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. 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.