Kirsty Gunn is an internationally published and award winning author of short stories, novel and essays that explore what it is to be human in the fleeting moments of our day to day lives. She is Research Professor at the University of Dundee, Associate Fellow of Merton and Brasenose Colleges, Oxford, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Royal Literary Fund, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She was born in Wellington, introduced to the work of Katherine Mansfield from an early age, and continues to write and think about Mansfield's legacy to the short story form. She is currently at work , with her co editor Delia da Sousa Correa, on a Selected Letters of Katherine Mansfield for Oxford University Press, along with a volume of essays about landscape, writing and music. She lives in Sutherland, in the Highlands of Scotland, and is married with two daughters