Erin Murphy is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, most recently Swoon: New and Selected Poems (Grayson Books, 2026) and Mother as Conjunction: Lyric Essays (Small Harbor Publishing, 2026). A new poetry collection, Domestic Silence, is forthcoming in 2027. Her latest edited volumes are I Witness: Documentary, Witness, and Research-based Poetics (Wesleyan University Press, April 2027) and the open access anthology The Book of Jobs: Poems About Work (Penn State University Libraries, 2026). Her awards include a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, two Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, the Paterson Prize for Literary Excellence, the Foley Poetry Prize, the NYC Big Book Award, the American Book Fest Best Book Award, a Best of the Net award, and two Best Microfiction honors. She is poetry editor of The Summerset Review and professor of English at Penn State University where she has been named the 2026-27 Penn State Laureate. Website: www.erin-murphy.com
