Katherine Dunn

KATHERINE DUNN has written about and reported on the sport of boxing since 1981. Her prize-winning boxing journalism has appeared in many publications from The Ring and KO Magazine to Vogue, Esquire and Playboy. Her column, Punch Lines, ran weekly in the Skanner Newspaper in Portland and Seattle from1982 to 1995. She is currently associate editor of cyberboxingzone.com, and internet boxing encyclopedia and magazine.

In 1987, Dunn and two colleagues wrote the original legislation to create the state commission that regulates, boxing, wrestling, and the martial arts in the state of Oregon. In 2004, Dunn and photographer Jim Lommasson won the Lange-Taylor Documentary Prize for their work on the book "Shadow Boxers."

Dunns third novel, Geek Love, was a finalist for the 1898 National Book Award. She is also the author of the novels "Attic" and "Truck." She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

Reviews and Comments

OregonLive.com on One Ring Circus

"One of our finest novelists is also hands-down the best boxing journalist working today."

Lucius Shepard
Hugo and Nebula-Award Winning writer and boxing journalist

"Every Dunn essay is a polished blend of empathy, artistry and informed opinion...A game fringed with bagmen and bloviators, shysters and showoffs, has finally got the wise, lucid spokesman it needs and deserves."

David Gianfriddo, CyberBoxingZone.com

"An exciting new addition to boxing literature. Dunn doesn't just see things--she sees into things. Her prose is brilliant and in a game so fully immersed in danger and utmost peril the most striking thing is Katherine Dunn's humanity."

Thom Jones
National Book Award Nominee, 'The Pugilist at Rest'