Sheila Murphy was born in 1951 in Indiana,
and is an American text and visual poet,
who has been writing and publishing actively since 1978.
She currently lives in Phoenix.
She earned her BA degree in music and English
from Nazareth College in Kalamazoo.
Then she went on to receive her MA in English Literature,
English Language and Literature from the University
of Michigan, and then later got her PhD
in Educational Administration and Supervision,
with an emphasis on Community Education from ASU.
With Beverly Carver, Murphy co-founded and coordinated
the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series
for 12 years.
Murphy has engaged in a broad range of poetic styles
over nearly three decades of writing and publication.
Her recent works include "Reverse Haibun",
"Circumsanct", "Quaternity", "how
to spell the sound of everything", and "Parsings".
Please help me welcome Gerry Connolly to the podium first.
[APPLAUSE]