Dev Murphy, MA

Dev Murphy is a creative writer and visual artist with more than 10 years of professional writing experience. Before joining the wikiHow team as a staff writer and quiz creator, she worked as an art gallery docent, an English writing and literature instructor, a ghostwriter, and an archivist and librarian at the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology. She has a BA in English with minors in French and Drawing from the University of Akron and an MA in English Literature with a specialty in 19th-century British Literature from Ohio University. She lives in Pittsburgh.

Education

  • The University of Akron, BA in English with minors in French and Drawing
  • Ohio University, MA English Literature, with a specialty in 19th-century British Literature

Professional Achievements

Dev's creative writing and illustrations have been published in The Iowa Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Guardian, The Rumpus, ANMLY, and elsewhere, and her visual art has been shown in galleries throughout the Pittsburgh region. Her work has received support from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, the 309 Punk House in Pensacola, and the Dirt Palace in Providence.

Expertise

  • Creative Writing
  • Visual Art
  • Illustration
  • Family Life
  • Literature
  • Philosophy & Religion
  • Psychology
  • Relationships

Why

Dev works for wikiHow because she loves learning new things and firmly believes that knowledge should be free and accessible to the world.

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