Robert Dunn is a writer, teacher, and musician. He’s published widely, including an O. Henry Prize–winning story, as well as fiction in The Atlantic, Redbook, Omni, and numerous literary journals, a poem in The New Yorker, and a front-page essay in the New York Times Book Review. Years ago he worked for The New Yorker magazine, then taught at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. For the last years of the writer Bernard Malamud’s life, Dunn was his assistant.

    Dunn's recent novels include The Sting Rays, Pink Cadillac (a Book Sense pick in 2002), Cutting Time: a Novel of the Blues, Soul Cavalcade, and Meet the Annas. An excerpt from Pink Cadillac appeared in The Best in Rock Fiction. A new novel, Look at Flower, will be published in March 2011.

   For the past 25 years, Dunn has taught fiction writing at The New School in New York City. As a musician, Dunn is the founder of Thin Wild Mercury, as well as its guitar player and principal songwriter. The group is on hiatus, but in the past they’ve played often around New York City, including regularly at Arlene’s Grocery and CB’s Gallery. Dunn is married to a film art director and lives in New York City.