Kirsty Gunn

Kirsty Gunn is an internationally published novelist and short story writer whose recent work has appeared in Landfall 244, the NZ Listener and Newsroom. She has received multiple prizes and awards, including Book of the Year at the 2013 New Zealand Post Awards for her novel The Big Music and her fiction is widely anthologised, broadcast and adapted into film, theatre and a range of media. Her most recent collection of short stories, Pretty Ugly is shortlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. She lives in Scotland.