In addition to her primary career as a writer and editor, Murray has held the position of Writer in Residence at the New York State Writers Institute at the State University of New York at Albany, and was Poet in Residence at Olana, the Frederic Church Museum. She has also worked as an arts consultant and writer for the New York State Council on the Arts, for whom she designed a grant category to support individual artists, and also coordinated a multi-year project to assist independent literary publishers. She has served as a panelist for The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, and The New York Foundation for the Arts.