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Bernadette Murphy is an Irish-American nonfiction author who writes about literature, women, risk taking, and life -- from motorcycles to knitting. She is the author of three books of narrative nonfiction: Zen and the Art of Knitting (Adams Media Corporation, 2002); The Knitter's Gift (Adams Media Corporation,2004); and The Tao Gals Guide to Real Estate, with Michelle Huneven, (Bloomsbury Publishing 2006). Look, Lean, Roll: A Woman, A Motorcycle, and Plunging into Risk will be published by Counterpoint Press in 2016. She is an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Department of Antioch University Los Angeles. A former weekly book critic for the Los Angeles Times, she writes essays on life and literature that have appeared in Ms. magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, The Oregonian, San Jose Mercury News, Newday, BOOK Magazine, and elsewhere. Other essays and short stories have been in featured in anthologies, including: Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, edited by Ann Hood; Wild with Child: Adventures of Families in the Great Outdoors, edited by Jennifer Bove and Mark Jenkins; My Little Red Book, edited by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff; Our Working Lives: Short Stories of People and Work, edited by Larry Smith and Bonnie Jo Campbell, and others. She holds an MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles and is the mother of three amazing young adults.