Dunn is a graduate of the MA creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, U.K.[1] She was Director of the MA in Novel Writing at the University of Manchester, 1999-2005.
[2] Dunn won a Betty Trask Award in 1991 for her novel, Quite Contrary.
[3] Dunn's novel The Queen of Subtleties: A Novel of Anne Boleyn details the life of the Tudor Queen and contrasts it with the fictional Lucy Cornwallis, the royal confectioner.
[4] A review of The Queen of Subtleties took issue with the character of Lucy but also stated: "Dunn's blend of fiction and real events works and the personal perspective she offers is interesting.
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