about

Samantha Strong Murphey (she/her) has an MFA in Poetry from NYU. Her collection BAD PROPHET is forthcoming from Trio House Press in 2027. Her work has been supported by Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Vermont Studio Center. She teaches writing at UT-Dallas and is a submission reader for Sontag Mag.

Sam was a finalist for Ninth Letter's Regeneration Prize and Gulf Coast's Barthelme Prize, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, Rattle, North American Review, RADAR 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.