Sean Murphy

A Zen practitioner for the past fifteen years, Sean Murphy is also the author of The Hope Valley Hubcap King, a darkly comic contemporary enlightenment story. The winner of the Hemingway Award for a First Novel, the book is to be released by Bantam/Dell in November 2002. Murphy is an MFA graduate of the Naropa University writing program. He teaches writing workshops in the U.S. and abroad and is an instructor in writing, literature, and film for the University of New Mexico in Taos.