Erin Murphy's most recent book of poems are Fluent in Blue (2024) and Human Resources (forthcoming from Salmon Poetry). Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and on Garrison Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac." She is Poetry Editor of the Summerset Review and co-editor of three anthologies published by the University of Nebraska Press and SUNY Press. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College, where she has received the university-wide Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching and the inaugural Mellon Academic Leadership Fellowship.