P.J. Murphy taught for ten years in the SFU Prison Education Program, the last six years at Kent Maximum Security in Agassiz, B.C. He has published extensively on Samuel Beckett as well as on prison literature. His most recent book is Paroled for Life: Interviews with Parolees Serving Life Sentences (New Star Books, 2002), with Lloyd Johnsen and Jennifer Murphy. He is currently Professor of English at the University College of the Cariboo (Kamloops).
