Katherine Dunn
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Katherine Dunn is a best-selling novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon. She was born in Kansas City, Kansas in 1945. She went to high school in Tigard, Oregon, and later attended Reed College in Portland. Following her time at Reed, Ms. Dunn spent several years in Europe traveling. While in Ireland, she had a child, and five years later she returned with her son to the United States.
Dunn's novel Geek Love was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1989. Her other published works include: the novels Attic (1970) and Truck (1971); the text for Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook (1995), a book of homicide photography; the humorous The Slice: Information with an Attitude (1989), which contains her collected newspaper columns from Willamette Week, a Portland weekly newspaper; 3 Day Fox: A Tattoo, a poem; and numerous articles for Playboy, Vogue, and the L.A. Times. Ms. Dunn is also an editor and contributor for the online boxing magazine cyberboxingzone.com. In the 1970s she had a radio show on Portland's small local radio station KBOO; where she would read short stories on the air. This, in turn, lead to voice-over work. Ms. Dunn's work experience ranges from tending bar, painting houses, and waiting tables, to teaching advanced classes in creative writing at Oregon's Lewis & Clark College.
She is currently working on her next book, Cut Man, as well as several journalism and book review projects.
