Christopher Brean Murray
is the author of Black Observatory (Milkweed Editions, 2023), which was chosen by Dana Levin as the winner of the 2022 Jake Adam York Prize. He holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. There he was awarded the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry and an Academy of American Poets Prize. He served as online poetry editor of Gulf Coast, and his work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Colorado Review, and other journals. He lives in Houston, Texas.
