Dr Susan Murphy is a writer, authorised Zen teacher and filmmaker. Her last book, Upside Down Zen, was published in 2004. Film and television writing credits include The Midas Touch, Secrets (six one-off dramas) and in 1991, her own feature film as writer-director, Breathing Under Water. In 1997 Susan was awarded a five-year QEII Research Fellowship by the Australian Research Council in social ecology. She is a frequent freelance producer of feature radio works for ABC Radio National Radio Eye. She divides her time between Berry and Sydney.