Brian Michael Murphy
Writer & Media Studies Prof
Bennington College
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Bio
Brian Michael Murphy is a Faculty Member in Media Studies at Bennington College, and Director of the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop. His book project, We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World, is under contract with the University of North Carolina Press. He has published essays and poems in Narrative, Waxwing, Kenyon Review, Mississippi Review, Media-N, Fairy Tale Review, Kweli, and in Italian translation in Ácoma. His work has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, a Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant, and awards from the Tinker Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council. He holds a PhD in Comparative Studies from The Ohio State University, where he was a Presidential Fellow. In spring 2020, he helped relaunch the literary and art magazine The Northwest Review, where he is the Managing Editor and Nonfiction Editor.
He used to be a rapper.
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