Sabina Murray

Sabina Murray (born 1968) is Filipina-American screenwriter and a novelist. She currently is a professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Background and career

The daughter of an American father and a Filipina mother, Murray grew up in Australia, Pennsylvania, and the Philippines. She received her B.A. in art history from Mount Holyoke College in 1989 and her M.A. in English and creative writing from The University of Texas in 1994. She also completed post-graduate study in fiction from The University of Texas in 1994. She has previously been a Roger Muray Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Academy (Andover, Massachusetts) and was published in Ploughshares, Ontario Review, and the New England Review. She was also the fiction judge for the Drunken Boat's First Annual Panliterary Awards.[1]

Murray currently lives in western Massachusetts, where she is on the fiction faculty at University of Massachusetts Amherst (along with Jeff Parker, Edie Meidav and Noy Holland). She is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.[2]

Awards and fellowships

Screenplays

Books
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gollark: It probably wouldn't fix any bias in the *police*, either.
gollark: > And can be solved using legislationHow do you fix racial bias or whatever through just *legislating* it?
gollark: My phone is at... 19%, since the battery's fried.
gollark: Anyway, you need *a* connection for emergency calls to work, because it has to connect somehow, but sometimes I get "emergency calls only" on my phone, and apparently there's a lot of specific handling of them in the phone network.

References
  1. "Drunken Boat | 7 | Spring 2005". www.drunkenboat.com. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  2. "About The Common | The Common". www.thecommononline.org. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  3. Upchurch, Michael (2016-10-27). "' Gentlemen': a superb novel about Irish patriot Roger Casement". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
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