Yvette Murray, Poet

Yvette R. Murray is an award-winning poet and the author of Hush, Puppy (Finishing Line Press 2023). Celebrate We Gullah Geechee is her first children’s book. She has been published in Chestnut Review, Aunt Chloe, Emry’s Journal, Litmosphere, A Gathering Together, and others. She is the 2022 Susan Laughter Meyers Poetry Fellow, a 2021 Best New Poet selection, a Watering Hole Fellow, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is a board member of the South Carolina Writer’s Association and the Poetry Society of South Carolina, and a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. Find her on Instagram @Missyvettewrite or email at Missyvettewrites@gmail.com.