Dan Murphy is an educator, author, and poet living in Newfoundland and Labrador. He has co-authored environmental science textbooks and written and co-authored numerous books and curriculum resources in the field of outdoor and environmental education. Dan has worked as an outdoor writer writing extensively about the natural environment and outdoor pursuits. As a poet, Dan draws on his experiences of Newfoundland and Labrador, his childhood in Northern Ontario, and his lifelong connection to the outdoors. His poetry explores memory, landscape, community, family, and the relationship between people and the places they inhabit. Dan’s poetry has appeared in literary journals, magazines, anthologies, and online publications in Canada, the United States, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. A collection of his early work was published in Humber Mouths 2 as part of the Rabbit Arts Festival. In 2011, he received a Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award for Poetry.
