About

Stacey Murphy loves writing and encouraging other writers in Ithaca NY.   

In 2017, she co-edited NY Votes for Women: A Suffrage Centennial Anthology , a collection of short works by women reflecting on suffrage and the rights and lives of women ever since the 19th Amendment. 

Her first poetry collection, Old Stones Understand, was released in Spring 2021 through Shanti Arts Publishing, LLC, and was a Royal Dragonfly Winner that year. Her poems have appeared in the 2016 anthology Wild Voices by Wildflower Poetry Press, seasonal nature journal The Avocet, and in a number of online places including the Painted Parrot, Hedgerow, and Gratefulness.org. 

In 2018, she organized an Ithaca group to participate in the International Day of Poetry through 100 Thousand Poets for Change.  She volunteered as an editor for Cayuga Lake Books from 2018-2022 and is a member of the Central NY Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.