Alabama Authors Directory

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Jim Murphy

Lives in: Montevallo, AL

Contact Information

  • Email: murphyj@montevallo.edu

Address:

    • Dept. of English & World Languages
      University of Montevallo
      Montevallo, AL 35115
      United States
  • Phone: (205) 665-6420

 

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About Jim Murphy

Genres: Poetry

Available for: Readings, Workshops, School Programs, In Person, Remote

Bio: Jim Murphy is the author of four poetry collections: The Memphis Sun (Kent State UP), Heaven Overland (Kennesaw State UP), The Uniform House (Negative Capability Press) and Versions of May (Negative Capability Press). His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Brooklyn Review, Cimarron Review, Gulf Coast, Painted Bride Quarterly, Mississippi Review, Puerto del Sol, Texas Review, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly and other journals. He has also translated a chapbook of poems from Spanish, …Read More Amazonia, by Colombian-American poet Juan Carlos Galeano. He lives in Homewood, Alabama, and is a Professor of English at the University of Montevallo.

Works: Versions of May (poetry collection), Negative Capability Press, 2023.
The Uniform House (poetry collection), Negative Capability Press, 2014.
Heaven Overland (poetry collection), Kennesaw State University Press, 2009.
The Memphis Sun (poetry …Read More collection), Kent State University Press, 2000.

Awards:

Walter E. Dakin Fellow, Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Tennessee Williams Scholar, Sewanee Writers’ Conference
University Scholar, University of Montevallo

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