Fiona Murphy is an award-winning writer and arts critic 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).

Fiona is a casual lecturer for RMIT University’s Professional Writing and Editing Program. She regularly facilitates creative writing workshops for organisations such as WestWords, Writers SA, Varuna and Writers Victoria. She is a MacDowell Fellow (2022), Peter Blazey Fellow (2024) and Michael King Fellow (2025).

Fiona is currently working on a collection of short stories, as well as a book about Deaf history.