The Modern Novel

Biography

Kirsty Gunn was born in Wellington in 1960. Her father was Scottish born but her mother was a New Zealander. She studied at Queen Margaret College and at Victoria University in Wellington and then took an M. Phil. at Oxford University. She has worked as a fashion journalist and a teacher. She is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Dundee.

Other links

Her homepage
Kirsty Gunn
Kirsty Gunn
Kirsty Gunn
You ask me if I’m lonely (article by Gunn)
The Future of the Novel (statement by Gunn at 2012 Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference)