Dan Murray was a poet and a Professor of English at Suffolk Community College in Riverhead, New York on Long Island. He went to college at the University at Buffalo where he studied with the poet John Logan. Murray’s poems were anthologized in Long Island Poets (The Permanent Press, 1986), and he was the 2002 recipient of the Long Island Poet of the Year Award given by the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association. The poetry collection, Remembering Dan Murray by Fred Byrnes, is dedicated to Murray’s writing and teaching.