“We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told me about it, and my son loved it. I left his dad and went to work slinging hash in a breakfast diner and working nights tending bar in a biker tavern.”

American novelist, journalist, and poet

Katherine Karen Dunn was an American novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon. She is best known for her 1989 novel Geek Love. Dunn also wrote extensively about boxing, alongside her work in fiction, reviewing, broadcasting, and poetry. Her writing career ranged across several forms, with Geek Love remaining the work most closely associated with her name.