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Bernadette Murphy

Bernadette Murphy is the author of Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life. She has published three previous books of narrative nonfiction including the bestselling Zen and the Art of Knitting, is an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Department of Antioch University Los Angeles, and a former weekly book critic for the Los Angeles Times. Her website is Bernadette-Murphy.com.
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    The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Evolve or Die

    In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life, the author shares what she learned studying sea life on the island Mo’orea.

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    The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Last First Day

    “My desires had now become too big, the call to a larger life too loud to be easily hushed.” As her children age and her identity as a Mother shifts, the author must step outside the safety of an outgrown…

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    The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Totally Hosed

    “In that instant, I believed I had killed him. And that my life, as I’d known it, had just ended.”

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    Sunday Rumpus Essay: Don’t Call Me Biker Chick

    She is middle-aged, with three nearly grown children and no tattoos, when learning to ride a motorcycle named Izzy teaches her to live fully and without fear.