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name: Lily Dunn
about: Lily Dunn is an author, mentor and educator. Her first novel was published by Portobello Books and her memoir about the legacy of her father’s various addictions will be published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in March 2022. She has personal essays in Granta, Litro, Hinterland, MIRonline and The Real Story, and is a regular writer for Aeon magazine. She is in her final writing up year of her doctorate at Birkbeck, University of London, and is interested in how to integrate the therapeutic power of writing with literature. She is editor of A Wild and Precious Life: a collection of stories and poetry from writers in recovery, published by Unbound in May 2021. She teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University and co-runs London Lit Lab.