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Bio

George Murray’s four books of poetry include The Rush to Here (Nightwood, 2007), The Hunter (McClelland & Stewart, 2003). He has been widely anthologized and has published poems and fiction in journals and magazines in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Europe. He is a former poetry editor for the Literary Review of Canada and is a contributing editor for several journals, including Canadian Notes & Queries, Maisonneuve, and The Drunken Boat. He regularly reviews poetry and fiction for the Globe and Mail. He has won or been shortlisted for several awards, and he has been on the part time faculty at New School University and Humber College. He lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland is the editor of the popular literary website Bookninja.com.

Books:

Selected Chapbooks:

  • A Set of Deadly Negotiations, Frog Hollow Press, 2005
  • Who Do You Think You Are? Wayward Armadillo Press, 2002

Selected Anthologies:

  • Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems, Wilfred Laurier University Press (Waterloo), 2008
  • Jailbreaks and Re-creations: 99 Canadian Sonnets, Biblioasis (Windsor), 2008
  • Gertrude Stein Award Anthology, Green Integer Press (California), 2006
  • The New Canon, Signal Press (Montreal), 2005
  • Breathing Fire 2, (Vancouver), 2004
  • Das Gedächtnis der Wörter, (Berlin), 2003
  • The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War, Three Squares Press (Toronto), 2003
  • 100 Poets Against the War, Salt Publishing (UK/Australia), 2003
  • Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets, Melville House (New York), Fall 2002
  • Introductions: Poets Present Poets, Fitzhenry & Whiteside (Toronto), Spring 2001

Selected Journals:

Alphabet City, Antigonish Review, B&A, Backwards City Review, Capilano Review, Contemporary Verse, Descant, Fiddlehead, Globe and Mail, Grain, Iowa Review, Jacket, London Magazine, LRC, Mid-American Review, Nerve, New American Writing, New Quarterly, nthposition, Ontario Review, Painted Bride, Pequod, Prairie Fire, Prism International, Radical Society, Rampike, Slope, and others.

Selected Awards:

  • 2007, Atlantic Poetry Prize, Shortlist
  • 2006, PIP Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative Poetry
  • 2003, New York Festivals Radio and Television Award for Best Writing for “Anniversary: A Personal Inventory” (commissioned by CBC Radio)
  • Various awards and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council and the Newfoundland Labrador Arts Council

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