Richard Thomas Murray's poems have appeared in a number of leading national and international literary magazines including The Moth, Poetry East, The Bitter Oleander, Slipstream, Rattle, and the Santa Fe Literary Review. He received his B.A. from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, and his M.A. in English-Creative Writing Concentration from Rutgers University-Newark. He has been teaching creative writing at Rutgers University-New Brunswick since 2007. Edisonia is his first book of poetry.