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Dr. Murray Ellison received a Master’s Degree in English Literature from Virginia Commonwealth University 9n 2015 and a Doctorate in Education at Virginia Tech (1988). He is married and has three adult daughters and 2 grandchildren He ‘retired’ as the Virginia Director of Community Corrections for the Department of Correctional Education in 2009. His MA thesis, on Edgar Allan Poe and 19th-Century Science, was published in 2015 and is now available online. Included in his ‘after-retirement activities,’ he founded and is still the chief editor of this literary blog. Currently, he serves as the Community Outreach Coordinator for the First Mennonite Church of Richmond(VA) and also participates in music there. He is an editor for the International Correctional Education Journal, and a Co-Editor of the 2016 book of poetry, Mystic Verses, by Acharya Shambhushivananda, He was the editor for Undercover in India and three other books by Paul Hosch. He has also edited many other professional projects, including some doctoral dissertations. He founded the RVA Classic Book Club in 2018 and is still an active member and advisor to the group of literary lovers. He serves as a volunteer tour guide for the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond Virginia. For almost a decade, he has been teaching literature and music classes for LLI Chesterfield, The Shepherd’s Center Open University, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Richmond. From 2019 to 2202, he was an Assistant Professor of English, teaching Writing & Research Classes at the Richard Bland College of William & Mary University.
Contact Murray at ellisonms2@alumni.vcu.edu.
