Joan Murray

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Joan Murray (born in New York City in 1945) is an American poet. She graduated from Hunter College and later earned an M.A. from New York University. She has been the poet in residence at the New York State Writer's Institute as well as spending time at Yaddo, an artist's colony in upstate New York. She has been the recipient of the Poetry Society of America's Gordon Barber Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship as well as a winner of the National Poetry Series and the Wesleyan New Poets Series.^[1] She currently lives and works in Old Chatham, New York.

Her ambition to be an artist was postponed when she entered college and became increasingly interested in the study of literature.

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Poems to Live By in Troubling Times, Beacon Press, 2006
Dancing on the Edge, Beacon Press, 2002
Poems to Live By in Uncertain Times, Beacon Press, 2001
Looking for the Parade, W.W. Norton & Co, 1999 (winner of the 1998 National Poetry Series)
Queen of the Mist: The Forgotten Heroine of Niagara, Beacon Press, 1999
The Same Water, Wesleyan University Press, 1990 (Wesleyan New Poets Series winner)
Egg Tooth, 1975