Staff

Peter E. Murphy
Founder
peter@murphywriting.com

Peter has been leading professional development workshops for teachers since 1986. He founded Murphy Writing of Stockton University to share his successful teaching strategies more widely. Here are some highlights of his qualifications and honors:

• Twice named a Distinguished Teacher by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars
• A Master Teacher for the New Jersey Council for the Humanities Summer Institute since 1999, Poetry consultant to The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation since 1986 and advisor to numerous other arts and educational institutions
• Teacher of high school English, creative writing and humanities for 29 years, part time college writing instructor since 1982
• Recipient of fellowships from The Folger Shakespeare Library, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
• Author of eleven books and chapbooks including The Man Who Never Was, Mean Time and two books of writing prompts.
• Founder of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway, an annual conference for teachers, writers and artists, established in 1994
• Longtime reader & rater for Educational Testing Service
• M.A. in English Education from New York University where he wrote his thesis on teaching writing to high school students

Stephanie Cawley
Director
stephanie@murphywriting.com

Stephanie is a writer, educator and arts administrator from southern New Jersey. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.A. in Literature from Stockton University. For 10 years, Stephanie has taught creative writing in both community and academic settings and has worked in nonprofit and arts administration. Her writing has been featured in Verse Daily, Best New Poets and the PEN Poetry Series. She is the author of the chapbook A Wilderness, winner of the 2018 All-Genre Chapbook Contest from Gazing Grain, an inclusive feminist press. Her first full-length collection of poetry Animal Mineral is forthcoming from YesYes Books.

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