Joan Murray - 1945
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Joan Murray was born in New York City in 1945, and
currently lives in Old Chatham in upstate New York. She has taught at Lehman College of the City University of New York, as well as the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and many community organizations. She currently
serves as an artist representative for the New York State Arts and Culture Coalition and is an arts consultant. Murray has won a few awards during her career. In
1976, she was named artist of the month by Bronx Council on the Arts. In 1998, she won the National Poetry Series, was runner-up for the Poetry Society of America's di
Castagnola Award. Murray won the Wesleyan New Poets Series winner, as well as was a recipient of PSA's Gordon Barber Award, a Knight Foundation Fellowship at Yaddo, and
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. II. Literary Works Joan Murray's works include the books Looking for the Parade: Poems,
Queen of the Mist, Same Water (Wesleyan New Poets), and Poems. Much of her work has been represented in other anthologies, such as The Looking Glass: 21
Modern Short Stories by Women (1977), and Mothers, Daughters (1978). She also contributed poems and articles to literary journals and popular magazines, including Atlantic Monthly, Ms
., and College English, as well as to newspapers. III. Links
http://www.alittlepoetry.com/murray.html
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/olv4n1.html
IV. Bibliography
New York State Writers Institute. Joan Murray. Jessica Firger. Joan Murray. This was submitted by a student of Marylin Dykens, a teacher at Rome Free Academy in Rome, New York.