Erin Murphy is the author or editor of 16 books, most recently Swoon: New and Selected Poems (Grayson Books), Human Resources (Grayson Books), Mother as Conjunction: Lyric Essays (Small Harbor Publishing), and Fluent in Blue (Grayson Books), winner of the 2025 American Book Fest Best Book Award in Poetry. She is poetry editor of The Summerset Review and professor of English at Penn State University, where she will serve as the 2026–27 Penn State Laureate. Visit her website at erin-murphy.com.
