Sabina Murray was born in 1968 and grew up in Australia and the Philippines. She is the author of the novels A Carnivore's Inquiry (Grove 2004), Slow Burn (Ballantine 1990), and The Lovers (Grove 2007). Her short story collection The Caprices (Houghton Mifflin 2002, Grove 2007) was the winner of the 2002 PEN/Faulkner award. Her stories are anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and Charlie Chan is Dead II: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian Fiction. She is the writer of the screenplay for the film Beautiful Country. She completed her Master of Arts as a James A. Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a former Bunting Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and a recipient of a major grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Murray has served as the Roger Murray Writer in Residence at Phillips Academy Andover and is currently a part of the MFA faculty at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.