Dan Murphy

Dan Murphy has published two chapbooks, The Seasick Serenade, Sung Partial (Bottlecap Press, 2024) and The Book of False Rhyme (Finishing Line Press, 2013), with poems published in Field, Beloit Poetry Journal, Image, Spillway, Zyzzyva, Cortland Review, North American Review, and elsewhere, and with recent publications in 2026 in Epiphany and Eclectica Magazine. He won the American Academy of Poets prize in 2005, and was one of the winners of the George Floyd Poetry Prize with Los Angeles Press, in 2020.   Murphy completed his BA in English from University of California at Berkeley, and received a MA in English (Creative Writing emphasis) from California State University at Northridge. He worked as a bilingual teacher and served as union representative in the Los Angeles Unified School District.   Find him on Instagram @buddhamartinizero