Joan Vincent Murray (February 12, 1917 – January 4, 1942) was a Canadian American poet.^[1]

She studied at The New School, with W. H. Auden.^[2]

Her papers are at Smith College.^[3]

• 1947 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, selected by W. H. Auden

• Poems (PDF). Yale University Press. 1947. Archived from the original on 2006-08-21.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• Poems : 1917 - 1942 / Joan Murray. Ed. by Grant Code; with a foreword by W.H. Auden, New York : AMS Pr., 1971, ISBN 978-0-404-53845-3
• Drafts, fragments, and poems : the complete poetry, Farnoosh Fathi (Ed.), John Ashbery (Foreword) New York : New York Review Books 2017, ISBN 978-1-68137-182-5

• W. H. Auden (2002). "Foreword to Poems, by Joan Murray". In Edward Mendelson (ed.). The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II. 1939-1948, Volume 3. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-08935-5.