Murray Shugars lives in Vicksburg, Mississippi, with his wife, Sandra, and their two daughters, Samantha and Miranda. In the spring of 2010, he returned from a deployment to Iraq with the Mississippi Army National Guard. He is an associate professor of English at Alcorn State University and the author of a chapbook, Songs My Mother Never Taught Me (Dos Madres, 2009). [bio updated 2011]
