Jennifer Murphy

Jennifer Murphy is an award-winning writer and performer whose work has been featured in numerous literary journals and anthologies. A recipient of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award honoring excellence in multicultural literature, she has performed her work at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Kitting Factory, The Nuyorican Poets Café, and will be featured at TEDWomen in November 2017. Jennifer also maintains a parallel career as a private investigator in the business intelligence and security sectors, specializing in online investigations, crisis communications, and threat monitoring for high-consequence events. She moonlights as an E.M.T. Jennifer holds a B.A. from Syracuse University, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and an M.F.A. in fiction writing from NYU, where she assisted with the NYU Veterans Writing Workshop. She lives in Brooklyn.