Patrick Murphy

Website: http://www.members.authorsguild.net/pjmurphy/  

     Murphy's stories are like an acting class in which the reader is required to put him-or-herself in a variety of situations or take on a variety of characters and imagine each in their full humanity. You get a lot of help from a great teacher, a thoughtful, adventurous acting coach. Ranging from the fantastic and apocalyptic to the familiar and local, the stories quickly capture the recklessness of the present moment.
     Murphy skillfully evokes the tension between the celebration of individualism and the impossibility of collective agreement. Though there are passages in which the show becomes transparent and the humble man working the knobs and levers is visible, this is most often a collection of funny and sinister stories with a refreshing assuredness.

Recommended. -- Brian Geary, West Seneca, N.Y.

Library Journal, October 1994

    Patrick Murphy was raised in Hialeah FL, but moved to California and spent many years as an electronics engineer for NASA at the Ames Research Center. He has a Masters of Divinity and studied systematic theology in Heidelberg Germany. More recently, he earned his Ph.D. in English from FSU and taught writing and literature, both at FSU and the University of Texas. He has published numerous stories in magazines across the country.
     He has been nominated several times for the Pushcart, O'Henry, and Best American collections, and won the Willow Review and the Greensboro Review Fiction Awards. He is a published poet, a member of PEN USA and the Authors' Guild. He is listed under fiction in A Directory of American Poets & Fiction Writers and The Authors' Registry.

  

   

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