Sade Murphy was born and raised in Houston, TX. She doesn't have an accent. She attended the University of Notre Dame and graduated with a Bachelor's in Studio Art. Her studio practice is focused in book arts, printmaking, silk painting, and installation art. In 2011 she received a fellowship from the Pavlis Foundation to complete a month long residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She has published one chapbook of poetry, Abandon Childhood, which most likely cannot be found anywhere. Her poetry has been published in Action Yes, joINT, Revolver, Deluge, Tagvverk, and LIT. DREAM MACHINE (co-im-press, 2014) is her first full length manuscript of poetry and she plans to apply to MFA programs this fall. She currently lives and works in South Bend, Indiana as a silk painter with Silk Creations, a collective of women artists, and serves as the Artist-in-Residence at Dismas House, a community focused on the re-entry of the formerly incarcerated.