Annie Murphy

Biography

Annie Murphy’s work has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, the Miami Herald, The Nation, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Times of London. Her essay “Father Copper,” about Chilean copper mining, appeared in the Fall 2010 issue of VQR. She is based in South America, where she works as a regular contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered, Marketplace, and Morning Edition.

See Work

REPORTING / Summer 2011

All Rivers Lead to the Sea

By Annie Murphy ,  Photography by Rodrigo Llano

As a child, Oridia Paredes dreamed of walls. For the daughter of itinerant fishermen in Chilean Patagonia, daily life was built not around a house or a neighborhood, but the sea—and for Paredes, walls became a symbol of the life that her...

Winter 2011

Once More, Potosi

By Annie Murphy ,  Photography by Tim Hussin
REPORTING / Fall 2010

Father Copper

By Annie Murphy ,  Photography by Rodrigo Llano

When Carmen Ahumada first looked on the copper mining city of Calama, she wanted to die. It was 1958, long after Germany’s World War I-era invention of artificial saltpeter—the main ingredient in bombs—brought Chile’s glory days as a world...

Fall 2007

Past Tomorrow: A Letter From Bolivia

By Annie Murphy