Kirsty Gunn is Professor in Creative Writing at University of Dundee, UK. An internationally published novelist and essayist, she is author of Rain, The Keepsake, Featherstone, The Boy and the Sea, The Big Music and Caroline's Bikini and established the writing programme at Dundee University and is Associate Member of Merton College, Oxford, Fellow of RSL, and from 2022, a Royal Literary Fellow.