Genni Gunn
Author Bio
GENNI GUNN is a writer, musician and translator. Born in
Genni's latest novel, Solitaria, is on the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist.
Her opera, Alternate Visions, produced by Chants Libres premiered in Montreal in 2007 (music by John Oliver) and was projected in a simulcast at The Western Front in Vancouver; and her poem, Hot Summer Nights, has been turned into classical vocal music by John Oliver, and performed widely internationally.
Genni’s works have been finalists for the CBC Literary Awards in all three categories: fiction personal essay and poetry; the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Thrice Upon a Time; the Gerald Lampert Award for poetry collection Mating In Captivity; the Premio Internazionale Diego Valeri for literary translation for poetry collection Traveling in the Gait of a Fox; and the John Glassco Translation Prize for poetry collection Devour Me Too. She has received two Praxis Film Development Fellowships for her screenplays.
Her novel, Tracing
Iris, has been optioned for film and is in development with TRACING IRIS PRODUCTIONS INC.
Her work has been anthologized both nationally and internationally, and her short stories have appeared in The Journey Prize Anthology (McClelland & Stewart), Best Canadian Stories (Oberon Press), and the now defunct renown American journal Story.
Before she turned to writing full-time, Gunn toured Canada extensively with a variety of bands ( bass guitar, piano and vocals).
Gunn has a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from theUniversity of British Columbia. She is a member of the Writers' Union of Canada, The Literary Translators Association
of Canada, and Pen International.