Michelle Murray PhD, RNC, is an author and international educator. She was previously a licensed clinical nurse specialist, labor and delivery nurse, and clinical associate professor in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Her publications appear in such journals as Birth, MCN, the Journal of Perinatology, and the Journal of Nursing Care Quality. She has book chapters in American Jury Trials, Risk Management Techniques in Perinatal and Neonatal Practice from Futura, Inc. and AWHONN's Liability Issues in Perinatal Nursing.

Dr. Murray was a two-term AWHONN New Mexico Section Chair and two term AWHONN New Mexico Secretary-Treasurer. She was the recipient of two Excellence in Education Awards: one from District VIII AWHONN and the other from Sigma Theta Tau New Mexico. She was a contributor to AWHONN's publication entitled Nursing Management of the Second Stage of Labor, as well as a grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health.