Murray’s first collection, "The Same Water", won the Wesleyan New Poets Series Competition and was a finalist for the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award. Her second book, "Queen of the Mist", a novel-in-verse about the first person to go over Niagara in a barrel, was chosen by Joyce Carol Oates as runner up for a Poetry Society of America award; she was also commissioned by Broadway’s Jujamcyn Theaters to adapt it for the stage. Her third book, "Looking for the Parade", was chosen by Robert Bly as winner of the National Poetry Series Open Competition. Her fourth book, "Dancing on the Edge", was published in connection with her bestselling 9/11 anthology, "Poems to Live By in Uncertain Times", and she is also the editor of its anti-war sequel, "Poems to Live by in Troubling Times". She was poetry co-editor of "The Pushcart Prize 25th Anniversary Edition", and is the editor of "The Pushcart Book of Poetry: the Best Poems from Thirty Years of The Pushcart Prize". Her collection, "Swimming for the Ark: New & Selected Poems, 1990-2015", was the inaugural volume in the White Pine Press Distinguished Poets Series.