About

Devan Murphy is a Pushcart-nominated writer, illustrator, and editor based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of I'm not I'm not I'm not a baby (Ethel Press 2024)—a collection of prose poems, abstract comics, and short essays about God, animals, and loneliness, and a 2025 finalist for the New England Poetry Club's Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award, selected by Matthew E. Henry.

Devan holds an MA in English Literature from Ohio University as well as a BA in English from The University of Akron. Her writing and illustrations have been featured in Electric Literature, The Iowa Review, The Guardian, and elsewhere, and her visual art has been shown in galleries throughout the Pittsburgh region, including SPACE, Concept, You Are Here, and the Irma Freeman Center for Imagination.

Her story "The Beginning of the End" was chosen for inclusion in the 2026 Best Microfictions anthology by judge Diane Seuss, and a selection of her surreal short stories won second place in the University of Louisville's 2025 Italo Calvino Fabulist Fiction Prize, judged by Jenny Boully. Her writing and visual art have received support from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, the 309 Punk Project in Pensacola, and the Dirt Palace in Providence.

A Northeast Ohio native, she now lives in Pittsburgh, where she writes wikiHow articles and personality quizzes for a living. To get in touch with Devan about her writing or visual art, or to inquire about purchasing prints or original artwork, please reach out through Instagram or the form below.

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