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Robert Dunn

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Robert Dunn

Robert Dunn is a writer, teacher, and musician. He has published widely, including an O. Henry Prize-winning story, as well as fiction in The Atlantic,RedbookOmni, and numerous literary journals, a poem in The New Yorker, and a front-page essay in the New York TimesBook Review. His novel The Sting Rays is in print through Electron Press (www.electronpress.com). He has worked for The New Yorker magazine, as well as teaching at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. For the last years of the writer Bernard Malamud's life, Dunn was his assistant in New York City.

For the past 16 years Dunn has taught fiction writing at The New School in New York City, which he continues to do. For the past 20 years he has worked for Sports Illustrated magazine. Dunn is the founder of the musical group Thin Wild Mercury, as well as its guitar player and principle songwriter. Thin Wild Mercury plays often around New York City. Dunn is married to a set designer/film art director and lives in New York City.

Robert Dunn

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