Sean Murphy has appeared on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and been quoted in USA TodayThe New York TimesThe Huffington Post, and AdAge. A long-time columnist for PopMatters, his work has also appeared in SalonThe Village VoiceWashington City Paper, The Good Men Project, Memoir Magazine, and others. His chapbook, The Blackened Blues, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. He has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and served as writer-in-residence of the Noepe Center at Martha’s Vineyard. He’s the Founding Director of 1455 (www.1455litarts.org). To learn more, and read his published short fiction, poetry, and criticism, please visit seanmurphy.net/ and @bullmurph.