Raised outside of Boston, Christopher Murphy attended Brown University and The University of Arkansas. He serves on the editorial board for Nimrod International Journal of Poetry and Prose, as well as the boards for the Arts Council of Tahlequah and the Oklahoma Humanities Council. His work has been published at Gulf Coast (online), This Land, Jellyfish Review, Necessary Fiction, decomP, Spartan, Ghost Parachute and The Tulsa Voice among others. Currently, he's an associate professor of English teaching creative writing at Northeastern State University.