Antonia Murphy is an award-winning magazine journalist, author and adventurer. A San Francisco native, she took off on her sailboat in 2005 and never came back. Today, she lives and works in Whangarei, New Zealand, with her husband Peter and their two children, Silas and Miranda. Antonia’s debut memoir, DIRTY CHICK: Adventures of an Unlikely Farmer was published by Gotham Penguin (USA/Canada) and Text (Aus/NZ) in January 2015.

Books by Antonia Murphy

Dirty Chick: Adventures of an Unlikely Farmer

by Antonia Murphy - Nonfiction

DIRTY CHICK chronicles Antonia Murphy’s first year of life as an artisan farmer. Having bought into the myth that farming is a peaceful, fulfilling endeavor that allows one to commune with nature and live the way humans were meant to live, Antonia soon realized that the reality is far dirtier and way more disgusting than she ever imagined.