Literary Heist

Dr. Murphy received his BA and MA in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, where he was poetry editor of the Charles Street Review, and his MD at UCLA, where he was editor of Plexus. He subsequently trained in medicine and infectious diseases at the University of Wisconsin, CDC, and University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. Late in life, he has returned to writing poetry after a career in academic and clinical medicine. He remains clinical professor of medicine at University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine. His poetry has appeared in Visions International and Gemini Magazine and fiction in The Brussels Review. He lives in the rain-shadow of the Sierras, with his wife Rachael, surrounded by spruce, aspens, pines, quail & jays, bobcats, foxes and bears. On Sunday night, a bear limped across the patio, consuming strawberries left for rabbits, reminiscent of the bear and strawberry tree in Madrid’s Puerto del Sol.