Kirsty Gunn

Kirsty Gunn has written five works of fiction as well as three short story collections, and, most recently, a long essay about her interest in and connection to Katherine Mansfield. Her most recent collection of short stories, Infidelities, published in 2014, was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Award and won the Edge Hill Prize. She is Professor of Writing Practice and Study at the University of Dundee and lives in London and Scotland with her husband and two daughters. She has known Jane Eyre since she was nine and continues to think about her. In that way – as is the case with all truly realised fictional characters – Jane is a contemporary.