Rona Murray was born in London, England, in 1924. She spent her early childhood in India and immigrated to Canada in 1932. Since then, she has travelled the world extensively. She was educated at the University of British Columbia as well as the University of Kent, Canterbury, where she received a Ph.D. in English Literature. She has taught English and creative writing at a number of colleges and universities throughout British Columbia. Dr. Murray is the author or editor of fouteen books, including four collections of poetry: The Enchanted Adder (1965), The Power of the Dog (1968), Selected Poems(1974), and Ootischenie (1974). Her play, Blue Duck's Feather and Eagledown was performed in the 1958 Centennial celebrations of British Columbia, and her poems and stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies in North America. Dr. Murray and her husband, potter Walter Dexter, currently reside on Vancouver Island.

The Art of Earth
co-authored with Walter Dexter

This beautifully produced book contains photographs of ceramics from all over the world and from all periods. It ranges from ancient Greece to contemporary Canada, from the work of the Navaho to that of the Etruscans, and includes photographs of many important pieces never before gathered together in one book. The prose and verse extracts are equally wide-ranging in both place and date, and some of them have never previously appeared in English. This is a book for all lovers of pottery, both makers and collectors.

Journey Back to Peshawar

Shaped as a quest narrative, Journey Back to Peshawar vividly recalls Rona Murray's early years in the India of the British Raj and her return fifty years later to the very different India of the 1980s. Throughout the book, the clarity of the author's vision acts as a fascinating foil to the essential recognition of mystery which has always been at the heart of India's identity.

Love and Pomegranates
An Anthology of Short Fiction
Edited with Garry McKevitt

The twelve stories in Love and Pomegranates constitute an engaging, contemporary view of living suited to the advent of a new millennium. Written by uncommonly talented emerging writers, these are edgy, provoking and wickedly entertaining stories. All are written with consummate skill and all, whether embodying surprise, anger, enlightenment, or humour, are concerned with personal loss. 'There is a delightful strangeness to these stories, and we share, with several of the protagonists, that guilty and solitary pleasure of peeking into other lives. If as [one character] suggests, 'the purpose of travel was to escape the familiar,' this collection offers a most rewarding trip. Take it.' - Leona Gom

Memory of Elsewhere

Rona Murray searches for meaning in the aftermath of a near-fatal car accident she survived five years ago. A fascinating, wide-ranging, thought-provoking reflection.

Threshold
An Anthology of Six New Female Poets
edited by Rona Murray
works by Barbara Colebrook Peace, Dorothy Field, Alisa Gordaneer, Kelly Parsons, Suzanne Steele, and Susan Stenson

Open this book at any page and you will find a poem worth reading. The six writers in this fine anthology may not be well known, but they are not "beginners"; they are skilled and confident and intelligent. Reading their work is, to quote Barbara Peace, like "opening silence." Rona Murray is to be congratulated for bringing together such excellent work in this collection.