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Biography
Kirsty Gunn, BA (Hons), M.Phil., educated at Victoria University and Oxford, is the author of six novels - Rain, The Keepsake, Featherstone, The Boy and the Sea, The Big Music and Caroline's Bikini - extended essays and short stories about identity and Katherine Mansfield - Thorndon, My Katherine Mansfield Project and Going Bush - as well as two collections of short stories - This Place you Return to is Home and Infidelitites - and 44 Things, a collection of essays, fragments and stories. She is the recipient of a number of awards and prizes including the Scottish Arts Council Bursary for Literature, the New York Times Notable Book award, Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year. The Big Music was shortlisted for the James Tait Black and Impac Awards and was a Guardian Book of the Year and winner of the New Zealand Book of the Year and her most recent novel, Caroline's Bikini, is just out in paperback this year.
Her last collection of short stories, "Infidelities", published in November 2014, was awarded the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2015 and was also shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. She is published by Faber and Faber and internationally, and her work has been made into films, theatre, dance and widely broadcast.
She has previously taught Creative Writing at Oxford University and at a number of writing seminars and schools and now teaches modules in Writing Practice and Study, and directs, with Gail Low, the WritersRead series at Tonic in Dundee. She lives in London and Scotland with her husband and two daughters.
Further information about Kirsty is available on her website at http://www.kirsty-gunn.com/.
Teaching
Undergraduate and Graduate modules in Writing Practice and Study; PhD supervision
Research
Fiction - Short and long; Essays
Research interests
Relevance of fiction and the imagination in the 21st century
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Imagined Spaces: Practice based knowledge and research
Gunn, K., Low, G. & Mackenna, T.
31/03/19 → 30/06/20
Project: Research
Research Output
Action Writing: Imagination and The Novel
Gunn, K., 6 Jun 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
In Other Words: an essay about language arranged by Kirsty Gunn and Gail Low
Low, G. & Gunn, K., 28 Nov 2019, In : New Writing. 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
When Daughters Leave: Essay Writing and The Fugitive Subject
Gunn, K. & Low, G., Mar 2019, In : Writing in Practice. 5Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Caroline's Bikini: An Arrangement of a Novel with an Introduction
Gunn, K., 21 Jun 2018, London: Faber and Faber. 352 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Activities
Taking Ideas for a Walk
Gail Low (Organiser), Kirsty Gunn (Organiser)19 Jun 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Other event
NAWE Annual Conference 2018
Gail Low (Presenter), Kirsty Gunn (Presenter)11 Nov 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
The Voyage Out Press (Publisher)
Gail Low (Editor), Kirsty Gunn (Editor)2016 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Press / Media
Finding Harmony, Literally, in Fiction About Music
25/01/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
Book celebrating "silent teachers" leads to Stephen Fry Award 2013
11/01/13
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other