Less Likely as We Go

Sheila E. Murphy's most recent publications: I Want To Be Your Radio (Unlikely Books, 2025), Escritoire (Lavender Ink, 2025), and Permission to Relax (BlazeVOX Books, 2023). Work has appeared or is forthcoming in Verse Daily, Lana Turner, Black Sun Lit, Fortnightly Review, Poetry, Hanging Loose, and others. Gertrude Stein Poetry Award for Letters to Unfinished J. (Green Integer Press, 2003). Hay(ha)ku Book Prize for Reporting Live From You Know Where (Meritage Press, 2018). Has lived in Phoenix, Arizona, throughout her adult life. Born in Mishawaka, Indiana and reared in South Bend.