The Drum

Sabina Murray is the author of the novels Forgery, A Carnivore’s Inquiry, and Slow Burn. Her short story collection The Caprices was the winner of the 2002 PEN/Faulkner award. Tales of the New World, a new story collection, looks at exploration in imaginative and fractured ways. She is a former Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, Bunting Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and Guggenheim Fellow, and was recently awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. Murray is a regular contributor at The Nervous Breakdown. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at UMass Amherst.

Her story "Balboa," from Tales of the New World, appears in the July 2012 issue of The Drum.