Jerome Ellison Murphy

Jerome Ellison Murphy earned his MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University, where he currently serves as Undergraduate Programs Manager. He currently co-curates the Bespoke readings series at Bureau of General Services Queer Division bookstore, and is a frequent participant in the Emotive Fruition performance series curated by Thomas Dooley. He has also served on the board of Lambda Literary Foundation, the world's foremost non-profit supporting LGBT literature. His critical writing has appeared in LA Review of Books, Publishers Weekly, The Brooklyn Rail, Lambda Literary Review, and American Poets, while his poetry appears in Narrative Magazine, Lit Hub, The Awl, NPR's RadioLab, Spunk, Bellevue Literary Review, and on the ceiling as you lie awake at 4 a.m. See more at jemwords.com.