Nancy Murphy is the author of the poetry chapbook The Space Carved by the Sharpness of Your Absence (Gyroscope Press 2022). She was the winner of the Aurora Poetry contest in Winter 2020. Her poems have appeared in The Baltimore Review, SWWIM, Sheila-Na-Gig, Anacapa Review, and others. She was also recently featured in the Dublin based podcast, Eat the Storms. A long-time volunteer with WriteGirl LA, she has mentored teen girls, and also teen girls and boys in the juvenile detention system, through writing programs. www.NancyMurphyWriter.com.