Sabina Murray

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Sabina Murray (born in 1968) is an award-winning Filipina American screenwriter, and a novelist currently an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Contents 1 Background and career 2 Awards and fellowships 3 Screenplays 4 Books 5 External links

[edit] Background and career

The daughter of an American father and a Filipina mother, Murray grew up in Australia, Pennsylvania, and the Philippines. She received her B.A. in art history from Mount Holyoke College in 1989 and her M.A. in English and creative writing from The University of Texas in 1994. She also completed post-graduate study in fiction from The University of Texas in 1994. She has previously been a Roger Muray Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Academy (Andover, Massachusetts) and was published in Ploughshares, Ontario Review, and the New England Review. She was also the fiction judge for the Drunken Boat’s First Annual Panliterary Awards.

Murray currently lives in western Massachusetts, where she is on the fiction faculty at University of Massachusetts Amherst (along with Chris Bachelder and Noy Holland).

[edit] Awards and fellowships

• Several major awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2003).
• A Carnivore's Inquiry, was named a "Best Book of the Year" by The Chicago Tribune.
• Fellowship from the Michener Center at The University of Texas, Austin
• Bunting fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
• Nominated for the Best First Screenplay Award (Independent Spirit Awards 2005)

[edit] Screenplays

• The Beautiful Country (2004) (Terrence Malick, Nick Nolte, Bai Ling)

[edit] Books

• Slow Burn
• The Caprices (Houghton Mifflin)
• A Carnivore's Inquiry (Grove/Atlantic)
• Forgery (Grove/Atlantic) (Due out May 28, 2007)

[edit] External links

• Sabina Murray at the Internet Movie Database
• The Beautiful Country at Barnes & Noble
• Sabina Murray at IMDB
• Book Page Review
• Sabina Murray's page at Houghton Mifflin
• The Caprices at Fiction Award Winners Dot Com
• Review in The New York Times
• Review in Ploughshares
• Review at Small Spiral Notebook
• The MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts
• Nick Nolte Interview About "The Beautiful Country" in Stumped Magazine