Patricia Colleen Murphy teaches poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction in the Humanities and Arts Department at Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus where she is the managing editor of the online literary magazine Superstition Review. She earned a B.A. in English and French from Miami University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Arizona State University. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, Quarterly West and American Poetry Review. Her poems have received awards from the Associated Writers and Writing Programs, the Academy of American Poets, Glimmer Train Press and The Southern California Review. Her book Inevitable Flow was a finalist at Alice James Books in 2004. Her book Sun Damage was a finalist at Carnegie Mellon Press in 2007.

NEWS

July 23, 2008
Murphy has been invited to teach a 4 day writing workshop at Hacienda de los Santos in Alamos, Mexico.The 4-day Writing workshop, titled “ Writing the Memoir: Crafting Your Personal Experience into Art” will start with an Introductory session on the evening of Thursday October 2. There will be three morning workshops on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, culminating in a student reading on the evening of Sunday October 5. Murphy will also give public readings of her own poetry and prose in the Hacienda Theater.

June 3, 2008
Murphy has been invited to speak at the 2009 Desert Nights Rising Stars Conference in Tempe, Arizona. Here tentative schedule will include:

Team-taught session: Teaching Creative Writing Feb 18, 2 - 3 pm
Meet the Writers Social Reception: Feb 20, 4:30 - 5:30 pm
Roundtable: Founding & Editing Literary Publications Feb 20, 2:15 - 3:15 pm

June 3, 2008
Murphy will sit on a panel with her colleage Kristin Lacroix and her student Erin Paquette at the 2008 Arizona English Teachers Association Conference on
Saturday, October 25, 2008 2:50-3:40 pm. Their panel is titled: Superstition Review: Practical Experience for Creative Writing and Web Design

February 22, 2008
Murphy was awarded an Arizona Commission on the Arts Project grant for 2008 to complete her work titled My Brother's Genius.