Sabina Murray was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in Australia and the Philippines. She is the author of the novel Slow Burn. "Intramuros" will be included in her short story collection The Caprices, which was inspired by the Pacific Campaign of the Second World War and will be published by Houghton Mifflin in the fall of 2001. A former Michener Fellow and Bunting Fellow, she is currently the Roger Murray Writer in Residence at Phillips Academy, Andover.