jocelyn paige murphy is an amateur author and practiced melancholic, writing poetry and prose from her hometown of san diego, california. professionally, she graduated from san diego state university in ’26 with a bachelor’s degree in english & comparative literature, as well as psychology, and is currently a student in the university’s master of fine arts program for poetry. with her affinity for literature and language, she aspires to produce collections of poetry, and become the author she has always seen in the mirror. personally, she works as a ballet teacher at a small and local dance studio, the very place where she grew up with a passion for the arts in its many forms. she, currently twenty-one, hopes to spend the rest of her life furthering a deep-rooted love of understanding as she travels, writes, reads, and writes some more. explore her work for more melancholy