Education
He attended the Clarion Workshop in 1985.
He attended the Clarion Workshop in 1985.
He was raised in a Latter-day Saint household, the oldest of eight children. Shunn received a Bachelor of Surgery in computer science at the University of Utah in 1991. He went to work for WordPerfect Corporation and was part of the team that developed WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS (the word processor"s final major DOS version, released in 1993).
In 1995, he moved from Utah to New York City.
Shunn"s first professional short story was published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1993. In the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, he created what may have been the first online survivor registry.
Strong Medicine (2003)
Love in the Age of Spyware (2003)
The Missionary Imposition, essay (2005)
An Alternate History of the 21st Century, chap-book (2007).