Fiona Murphy is an award-winning writer based in the Blue Mountains. Her writing about disability, accessibility and the arts has appeared in The Guardian, ABC, The Saturday Paper, Griffith Review, The Big Issue.

In 2021, her memoir about deafness (The Shape of Sound) was released in Australia, New Zealand, UK and North America. In 2022, it was highly commended in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and longlisted in the Australia Book Industry Awards (ABIA).