Erin Murphy is author or editor of more than a dozen books, most recently Human Resources (2025) and Fluent in Blue (2024). Her chapbook of centos, Fields of Ache, is available as a free download from Ghost City Press. Her poems and essays have appeared in Ecotone, Women’s Studies Quarterly, The Best of Brevity, Best Microfiction 2024, and anthologies from Random House, Bloomsbury, and Bedford/St. Martin's. She is professor of English at Penn State Altoona.