Sean Murphy teaches creative writing, literature and film at the University of New Mexico in Toas, and co-teaches with Natalie Goldberg (Bestselling author of "Writing Down the Bones") in her writing and mediation workshops. He has twelve years of formal Zen training under the direction of of Taizan Maezumi Roshi of the Zen Center of Los Angeles and the John Daido Loori Roshi of Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate New York.