Jeanne Murray Walker
Jeanne Murray Walker (born May 27, 1944) is an American poet and playwright. Life. Jeanne Murray was born on May 27, 1944 in Parkers Prairie, Minnesota, the daughter of John Gerald and Erna Murray. In 1965, she won the Atlantic Monthly Award for both fiction and Poetry and was named the Atlantic Monthly Scholar at Bread Loaf School of English. She graduated from Wheaton College in Illinois with a B.A. in English in 1966. In 1969 she received an M.A. from Loyola University, and in 1974, she was granted a Ph.D. in English from The University of  Pennsylvania. Walker's poems and essays have appeared in "Poetry", "The Georgia Review", "Image", "The Atlantic Monthly", "Best American Poetry" and many other journals. Her plays have been staged across the United States and in London. Among her awards are an NEA Fellowship, an Atlantic Monthly Fellowship, and a Pew Fellowship in The Arts. In 2005 she hosted a documentary about poetry in Pennsylvania, which was broadcast and rebroadcast on television and the web. A selection from her "Aunt Joe Poems" was featured on buses and trains with the Poetry in Motion project. A Professor of English at The University  of Delaware, Jeanne also teaches in the Seattle Pacific Low Residency MFA Program. Walker has two children and three grandchildren. She is married to E. Daniel Larkin III and lives in Merion Station, Pennsylvania.