Sabina Murray

Sabina Murray was born in 1968 and grew up in Australia and the Philippines.  She is the author of the novels Forgery, A Carnivore’s Inquiry, and Slow Burn. Her short story collection The Caprices was the winner of the 2002 PEN/Faulkner award.  Tales of The New World, short stories, is just out from Black Cat/Grove.  Her stories are anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and Charilie Chan is Dead II: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian Fiction.  She is the writer of the screenplay for the film Beautiful Country, which was an Independent Spirit Award Best First Screenplay nominee. Murray completed her Master of Arts as a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and is a former Bunting Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and a recipient of a major grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.  She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and served as the Roger Murray Writer in Residence at Phillips Academy Andover.  She recently received the Brown Literary Award from the University of Pittsburgh.  Murray is Professor of English and teaches in the MFA/Creative Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.