Sabina Murray (1968 - ) is an award-winning Filipino American screenwriter, the author of three novels, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 1998, Benjamin J. Cayetano became the first Filipino American (and second Asian American after Governor George R. Ariyoshi) to be elected state Governor of the United States. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... The MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst is a graduate creative writing program. ... The center of the UMass Amherst campus. ...

Background and career

The daughter of an American father and a Filipino mother, Murray grew up in Australia and the Philippines. She received her B.A. in art history from Mount Holyoke College in 1989 and her M.A. in English and creative writing from The University of Texas in 1994. She also completed post-graduate study in fiction from The University of Texas in 1994. She has previously been a Roger Muray Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Academy (Andover, Massachusetts) and has published in Ploughshares, Ontario Review, and the New England Review. Mount Holyoke College, (founded as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary 8 November 1837), is a liberal arts womens college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. ... University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (full official name), often UT or Texas for short, is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System, the largest public university system in Texas, established in 1883. ... University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (full official name), often UT or Texas for short, is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System, the largest public university system in Texas, established in 1883. ... Phillips Academy (also known as Andover, Phillips Andover, or simply P.A.) is a coed prep school for boarding and day students in grades 9-12. ... Andover is a town located in Essex County, Massachusetts. ... Ploughshares is an American literary journal founded by DeWitt Henry and Peter OMalley in 1971. ... Founded in 1978 by poets, Sidney Lea and Jay Parini, New England Review (NER) is a quarterly literary journal published by Middlebury College. ...

Murray currently lives in western Massachusetts. Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq. ...

Awards and fellowships

• Several major awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2003).
• A Carnivore's Inquiry, was named a "Best Book of the Year" by The Chicago Tribune.
• Fellowship from the Michener Center at The University of Texas, Austin
• Bunting fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

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Screenplays

• The Beautiful Country (2004)

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Books

• Slow Burn
  
• The Caprices (Houghton Mifflin)
  
• A Carnivore's Inquiry (Grove/Atlantic)
  

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External Links

• Sabina Murray at The Internet Movie Database