Jim Murphy is the author of four poetry collections: The Memphis Sun (Kent State UP), Heaven Overland (Kennesaw State UP), The Uniform House (Negative Capability Press) and Versions of May (Negative Capability Press). His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Brooklyn Review, Cimarron Review, Gulf Coast, Painted Bride Quarterly, Mississippi Review, Puerto del Sol, Texas Review, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly and other journals. He has also translated a chapbook of poems from Spanish, Amazonia, by Colombian-American poet Juan Carlos Galeano. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and is a Professor of English at the University of Montevallo.