Barbara Murphy’s poetry has appeared in journals including Green Mountains Review, Threepenny Review, and New England Review. She is a recipient of a Vermont Arts Council Fellowship. A collection of her poems, Almost Too Much was published by Cervena Barva Press in 2015. A second collection, The Unfinished Family,is forthcoming from Cervena Barva in 2023. Her essays and reviews have been published in The New York Times, Full Grown People, Meat for Tea and Green Mountains Review. She lives and writes in Vermont..