Mureall Hebert is a writer and editor who believes that good books are as essential to life as breathing.
She was born in Canada, but traipsed through three different countries by the time she was eight years old, ending up in Northern California.
She graduated from the University of Hawaii with a degree in nursing and spent innumerable years working the night shift as an intensive care and emergency department nurse. First loves can’t be forgotten, though and, eventually, Mureall left nursing and went back to school, earning an MFA in creative writing from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts.
A Pushcart, Best Microfiction, and Best New Poets nominee, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous print and online magazines, including Savor: Poems for the Tongue (Friendly City Books), trampset, Wizards in Space, Tab Journal, Arc Poetry Magazine, Qu, The Normal School, Sundog Lit, The Adirondack Review, Cease, Cows, Carve, Mezzo Cammin, JMWW, Bending Genres, Pithead Chapel, Right Hand Pointing, Rat’s Ass Review, Hobart, PANK, YARN, Five 2 One Magazine, Reflex Fiction (Spring 2017 long-list), Apeiron Review, Epigraph, The Blotter Magazine, Nailpolish Stories, Whidbey Life Magazine, Yellow Chair Review, decomP magazinE, Quantum Fairy Tales, The Furious Gazelle, Lunch Ticket, Stone Crowns Magazine, Crack the Spine, Bartleby Snopes, >kill author, Short, Fast, and Deadly, The Citron Review, Soundings Review and Bacopa Literary Review (Honorable Mention, 2012 short fiction contest.) Three Parts World, a poetry chapbook, was a finalist in Split Rock Press’s 2021 Chapbook Series. Her young adult novella was published in the anthology StereoOpticon.
She’s worked as the children’s & young adult editor for Soundings Review, an editor with Whidbey Writes, and a reader/assoc. editor for a variety of literary organizations & contests, including the CLMP Firecracker Awards, PNWA’s annual literary contest, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards (SAWA), and Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Awards (ABNA).
She lives with her husband in the Pacific Northwest, along with their children and two insanely happy Golden Retrievers.
Mureall is currently working on a young adult novel. She’s represented by Hannah Andrade, Bradford Literary Agency