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Sabina Murray is the author of eight books of fiction including the novel Valiant Gentlemen, a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book, The Caprices, a PEN/Faulkner Award winner, and the recent The Human Zoo. Muckross Abbey, a collection of stories, is forthcoming March '23.
Sabina Murray (born 1968) is a Filipina-American screenwriter and novelist. She currently is a professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Biography. Sabina Murray was born in 1968 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She is of mixed parentage—her mother a Filipina from Manila, her father a former Jesuit scholastic turned anthropologist from Boston. Her parents met in Washington DC, where both were pursuing graduate degrees.
Sabina Murray grew up in Australia and the Philippines and is currently a member of the MFA faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Slow Burn, A Carnivore’s Inquiry, Forgery, and The Caprices, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Help protect the freedom to write, read, and learn by donating to PEN ...
Dec 22, 2021 · Sabina Murray’s seventh book, The Human Zoo, is set in present-day Manila under the terrifying reign of a Rodrigo Duterte-like dictator. Part action thriller, part romance, and part family saga, the novel was inspired by an article Murray wrote for VICE magazine in 2017 about Duterte’s popularity, despite his brutal policy of extrajudicial ...
Nimbly shifting continents, decades, and political alliances, Sabina Murray does a brilliant job imbuing grand chunks of black and white history with color-breathing fire. Yet there is a haunted feel to the novel . . .
Aug 10, 2021 · Sabina Murray's The Human Zoo heads in two directions at once. On the one hand, it's the story of Ting (Christina) a Filipino-American journalist who has decided to divorce her husband and has returned to the Filipines to be with family as she considers her next direction in life.
