Sally-Ann Murray (born 1961) is an author from South Africa.

Murray was born in 1961 in Durban, South Africa,^[1] and attended the Durban Girls' High School.^[2] She received her MA and PhD from the University of Natal.^[3]

In 1992 Murray published her first anthology of poems entitled Shifting (Carrefour Press).^[3] Her second anthology, Open Season was published in 2006.^[4] Her first novel, Small Moving Parts, was published in 2009 by Kwela Books.^[5]

Poetry by Murray has appeared in literary journals and anthologies including, Imagination in a Troubled Space. A South African Poetry Reader (2004)^[6] and The New Century of South African Poetry (2002).^[7]

Murray has worked as a lecturer in the English Department of Stellenbosch University^[3] and University of KwaZulu-Natal.^[8] In addition to South African literature, Murray's research interests include environment, ecology, and cultural studies.^[8] She has contributed to academic journals including publishing in Critical Arts^[9] and English in Africa.^[10]

Murray has been the chair of the Poetry Africa schools' poetry programme and is an adjudicator of the Douglas Livingstone Creative Writing Competition.^[2]

Murray's first poetry collection, Shifting, won the 1991 Sanlam Award and 1989 Arthur Nortje/Vita Award.^[2]

In 2009, her novel Small Moving Parts won the M-Net Prize for English Fiction.^[11] The novel also won the 2010 Herman Charles Bosman Prize^[12] and the 2013 University of Kwazulu-Natal General Book Prize.^[13] It was nominated as a Sunday Independent 'Book of the Year' in 2009,^[14] shortlisted for a Sunday Times Fiction Prize in 2010,^[15] and shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing.^[16]