Fiona Murphy
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Fiona Murphy

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Fiona Murphy is a Deaf poet and essayist. Her work has been published in Kill Your Darlings, Overland, Griffith Reviewand the Big Issue, among other publications. In 2019, she was awarded the Overland Fair Australia Essay Prize and the Monash Undergraduate Creative Writing Prize. In 2018, she was shortlisted for the Richell Prize and highly commended by the Wheeler Centre Next Chapter program.

Books by Fiona Murphy

The Shape of Sound

A vivid and essential memoir of deafness, disability and identity by Australian writer Fiona Murphy

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