1 Published BooksJohn Murray
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John Murray was born in Adelaide, South Australia, where he studied medicine. He has a Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he was a teaching-writing fellow.
In 1992, he joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, specialising in epidemic dysentery and cholera in Africa and Asia. Since 1995 he has worked full time on child health programs in developing countries, most recently in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana and Uganda.
John Murray has recently returned to Australia and lives in Adelaide. "The Hill Station" won the Prairie Lights Short Fiction Award, and the title story was selected by Joyce Carol Oates for the Best New American Voices 2002 fiction anthology. A Few Short Notes on Butterflies is his first book. It was published to wide acclaim in the United States, UK and Australia in 2003.
