Rich Murphy's poetry collections have won the Poetry Prize at Press Americana twice, for Americana (2013) and The Left Behind (2020), and won the Gival Press Poetry Prize, for Voyeur (2008). His book Prophetic Voice Now and his poetry collection Practitioner Joy were published by Wipf and Stock in 2020. He has published eight other poetry collections. He has taught writing and literature at colleges and universities in the Northeast and is currently a guest lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
