Devin Murphy grew up near Buffalo, NY in a family with Dutch roots. He holds a BA/MA from St. Bonaventure University, an MFA from Colorado State University, a PhD from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Bradley University. He has worked various jobs in national parks around the country and once had a three–year stint at sea that led him to over fifty countries on all seven continents. His fiction has appeared in over 60 literary journals and anthologies, including The Missouri Review, Glimmer Train, The Chicago Tribune, New Stories from the Midwest, and Confrontation. He lives with his wife and children in Chicago.
Work / Publications
- In the T.V. Chair at the Belle Glade Greyhound Station
- Augustine’s Mountains
- Deidra in the Tub
- A Tub of Vaseline
- There’s Something Wrong
- Newts
- Seizure Dog
- Marge
- The Linkage of Bone
- Skinboy
- The Turtle’s Moon
- The Transportation of Watermelons
- Wrestling The Bear
- The Wolf of Gubbio
- Warmth
- On the Side of the Road
- Bud Light
- The Jumping Sampson
- The Armenian Flyer
- The Names of Wind
- The Olean Football Roster
- Off Dead Hawk Highway
- Counting Cars
- His Life with Animals
- Counting Cars
- Reasonable and Prudent
- On the Mountain
- Don Quixote and the House of Saturn
- Our One Year of Knowing the World
- The Relative
- A Reading from The Book of Tides
- The Picture of us in Mexico
- The End of the Road Movie Marathon
- Fireflies
- Levi’s Recession
- Controlled Burn
- The House Carpenter’s Daughter
- Sugar and Priscilla
- The Brooks Range
- Fireflies
- The End of the Road Movie Marathon; Dumpster Bear; The Traveling Roshannas
- Men in Masks
- The Only Boy on the Moon
- Finding Ro–Ro
- Those Other Lovely Lives
- Pilgrims
- Levi’s Recession
- The Kind of People We Are
- A Fine Memory While in Detox
- The Butterfly Man
- The 65′ Shelby Mustang
- As if it had Always Been There
- Foul Mouth
- Leaving Maine
- Catfight
- Unofficial Boy Scout Troupe 509
- Sad For Who I Am
- Songbirds
- The Linkage of Bone
- Lewis and Larissa
- Camp Soar
- How We Disappear
- Don Vargas. Wedding Guest
- The Holy Notes of Symphony
- To Telly, from Belleview, Colorado
- Red. Off. Red. Off.
- Saw Palm
- Southeast Fiction
- Write like Devin Murphy: Nano Fiction
- Second hand stories Podcast where they read my story, Red. Off. Red. Off.
- Bull Men’s Fiction BULLSHOT Interview
- Profane interview and reading
- Take Your Trash and Make it Fly
- The Downhill Mountain Man
- Small Movements