Bernadette Murphy is the author of four books of narrative nonfiction, including Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life and the bestselling Zen and the Art of Knitting. She has been the ghostwriter for numerous New York Times bestselling celebrity memoirs and has served as the weekly book critic for the Los Angeles Times and as associate professor at Antioch University Los Angeles, where she ran the creative nonfiction department. She is now a faculty member for the Newport MFA at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island.