John Murphy lives and works in Dublin. He was shortlisted twice for the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune New Irish Writing prize; he was also shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and specially commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Award. His debut collection, The Book of Water (Salmon, 2012), was well received. John is the only poet to have ever won the Strokestown International Poetry Prize two years in a row, in 2015 and in 2016.
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