Fiona Murphy: The Shape of Sound

Fiona Murphy is an award winning poet and essayist whose new memoir The Shape of Sound explores her experience of being deaf. She was in her first year of school when a hearing test confirmed she was profoundly deaf in her left ear. She has limited hearing in her other ear, and has recently learned she will eventually lose her hearing completely. Fiona says for two decades she did her best to keep her deafness invisible, and it was only in her late 20s that she began identifying as Deaf and began learning to sign. Fiona Murphy tells Kathryn Ryan learning Auslan helped her discover her own place within the Deaf community and indeed her own identity.