Rich Murphy

Rich Murphy’s poetry collections have won two national book awards: the Gival Press Poetry Prize in 2008 for Voyeur and the Press Americana Poetry Prize in 2013 for Americana. Asylum Seeker (2018) is the third in a trilogy out now. The first collection in the trilogy was Americana. Body Politic, the second, was published by Prolific Press in January 2017. Murphy’s first book The Apple in the Monkey Tree was published in 2007 by Codhill Press. Chapbooks include Great Grandfather (Pudding House Press), Family Secret (Finishing Line Press), Hunting and Pecking (Ahadada Books), Phoems for Mobile Vices (BlazeVox), and Paideia (Aldrich Press).