:: Joan Murray was born in New York City and has taught at Lehman College of the City University of New York, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and many community organizations. She is an arts consultant and serves as artist representative for the New York State Arts and Cultural Coalition, a legislative advocacy group. She is also the recipient of The Poetry Society of America's Gordon Barber Award, a Knight Foundation Fellowship at Yaddo, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Ms., The Nation, the New York Times, and the Paris Review. She lives with her husband in upstate New York.