“The technology was described as discreet. Perhaps my secret would be mine to keep,” reads Fiona Murphy from her debut memoir, The Shape of Sound (Text Publishing, 2022), about her experience of coming to terms with her deafness for the WestWords’ Writing Western Sydney series. Murphy’s memoir is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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