Education
University of California, Berkeley.
University of California, Berkeley.
The novels are published under Dunn"s own independent publishing company, Coral Press, located in New York City. His novel The Sting Rays is available online at Electron Press. He was born in Santa Monica, California, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
From 1976 to "82, he was on the editorial staff of The New Yorker magazine.
In 1982, he spent a residency at the artists" colony Yaddo. Foreign the final three years of the novelist Bernard Malamud"s life (1983-1986) Dunn was his literary assistant.
Dunn currently teaches fiction writing at The New School in New York City and has taught at Dickinson College in the past At The New School, he taught the first on-line fiction writing class through their innovative Dial Program and set the model for classes that followed.
In 2016, he’s teaching the first photobook course at the University.
His musical group, Thin Wild Mercury, played often in New York City and was a regular act at CBGB before its closing. Additionally, Dunn works as a copyreader at Sports Illustrated. In 2012, Dunn published his first photobook, OWS, now in the permanent library collection of the New York Public Library.
A photo from OWS was in an International Center of Photography show in 2014.
More recent photobooks include his Angel Parade series, now up to volume 10 (2012 to present), and Meeting Robert Frank (2013). All books are also at in the permanent collection of International Center of Photography.