Dr
Lily Dunn
- Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing
- Email: l.dunn@bathspa.ac.uk
- School: School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities
- Campus: Newton Park
- Website:
Personal statement
Dr Lily Dunn teaches on the Advanced Narrative Nonfiction modules on the BA (Hons) Creative Writing, and also teaches Nonfiction and specifically memoir on the MA Creative Writing course.
As a writer of memoir, but with a background in fiction, Lily is particularly suited to this form, particularly as it focuses on creative nonfiction: which is using fictional technique to tell true life stories.
Academic qualifications
- MA Creative Writing, Sheffield Hallam University
- PhD Creative Writing, Birkbeck, University of London
External roles
Dr Lily Dunn teaches through her private partnership, London Lit Lab
Teaching specialism and areas of expertise
- Memoir
- Narrative nonfiction
Research and academic outputs
Into being: the radical craft of memoir and its power to transform
book
Dunn, L (2025) Into being: the radical craft of memoir and its power to transform. Manchester University Press, Manchester. (Forthcoming)
Sins of my father: a daughter, a cult, a wild unravelling
book
Dunn, L (2022) Sins of my father: a daughter, a cult, a wild unravelling. W&N, London. ISBN 9781474623278
A wild and precious life: a recovery anthology
book
Dunn, L and Gilbert, Z, eds. (2021) A wild and precious life: a recovery anthology. Unbound, London. ISBN 9781783529643
Shadowing the sun
book
Dunn, L (2007) Shadowing the sun. Portobello Books, London. ISBN 9781846271175