C Lynn Murphy was born in New Hampshire, but has since lived in Scotland, France, Germany, Japan, England, Nepal, India, and Mongolia. She is a doctoral candidate in Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her first book, "The First Noble Truth," was written in a Tibetan nunnery in the Himalayas of Northern India. She is currently living between Mongolia and the UK, where she researches funerary practices, eats mutton, and generally has a good time.