Kirsty Gunn (born 1960, New Zealand) is a novelist, essayist, short story writer, and professor of creative writing.
[6][7] In 2001, the novel was adapted as both a film of the same name, directed by Christine Jeffs,[8] and as a ballet by the Rosas Company, set to "Music for Eighteen Musicians", a 1976 score by Steve Reich.
[9] Gunn's first collection of short stories, This Place You Return To Is Home, was published in 1999 and received a Scottish Arts Council Bursary for Literature.
[11][12] The novel took seven years to write, and was inspired by pibroch, the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe.
[18][19] Gunn has also published works that combine essay, fiction and autobiography, including 44 Things (2007)[9][20][21] and My Katherine Mansfield Project (2015) (published in New Zealand as Thorndon: Wellington and Home: My Katherine Mansfield Project).