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About Jeanne Murray Walker
 Jeanne was born in Parkers Prairie, a town of 700 people, in northern Minnesota. She attended college in the Midwest and then moved east to go to graduate school at The University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a PhD in English. In 1975 she began to teach at The University of Delaware and since then has written poetry, plays, and essays. She is a frequent speaker at poetry festivals, conventions, churches, retirement homes, high schools, colleges and universities, and book stores, as well as on the radio. In summer 2008, as she was reading to a large gathering outside Santa Fe, NM, night fell so abruptly that it became impossible to see the page. Several members of the audience stepped forward with candles and the reading went on.
Jeanne has written seven collections of poetry, among them, A Deed To the Light, Coming Into History and New Tracks, Night Falling. Jeanne's scripts have been performed in theatres across the United States and in London. They are archived in North American Women 's Drama. Among her plays are Stories From The National Enquirer and Inventing Montana, published by Dramatic Publishing Company.
An Atlantic Monthly Fellow at Bread Loaf School of English, Jeanne has also been awarded a Pew Fellowship in The Arts, an NEA Fellowship, and numerous other grants and fellowships. She serves on the Editorial Board of Shenandoah and Image magazine. For 20 years she was the Poetry Editor of Christianity and Literature. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Poetry, The Chicago Tribune, Christian Century, The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, Image and Best American Poetry. Her work has appeared on busses and trains with Poetry in Motion and has been printed by The Center For The Book, which distributed it to libraries and schools in Pennsylvania.
 Jeanne collaborated on editing Shadow and Light, Literature and the Life of Faith, a historical anthology of great literature in English which documents the human quest for God. Image magazine called it the current "stand-out, single-volume" on the subject of spiritual questing.
In spare moments, Jeanne gardens, listens to string quartets and jazz, and cooks. She has carried truckloads of groceries into her kitchen in Philadelphia, where, she figures, she has made 11,207 dinners for her children.
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