Sabina Murray was born in 1968 and grew up in Australia and the Philippines. She is the author of the novels A Carnivore's Inquiry (Grove, 2004), Slow Burn (Ballantine, 1990), and, forthcoming, Forgery (Grove, 2007). Her short story collection The Caprices (Houghton Mifflin, 2002, Grove 2007) was the winner of the 2002 PEN/Faulkner award. Her stories are anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and Charlie Chan is Dead II: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian Fiction. She is the writer of the screenplay for the film Beautiful Country, which was an Independent Spirit Award Best First Screenplay nominee. She completed her Master of Arts as a James A. Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and is a former Bunting Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and a recipient of a major grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Murray has served as the Roger Murray Writer in Residence at Phillips Academy Andover and is currently an associate professor of English, Program for Poets and Writers, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

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