Kristyn Dunnion

Appel Salon Program, Toronto Public Library Jan 19 2021

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Please join me Tuesday, January 19th, 2021 from 7 pm -8 pm for a lively discussion of my recent story collection, STOOP CITY, one of the Globe & Mail’s most anticipated Fall books. Leading the […]

The fall’s best new books from independent publishers

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The fall’s best new books from independent publishers

Some of the stories in Kristyn Dunnion’s latest collection are loosely linked by character, but what really unites Stoop City (Biblioasis) is its punk ethos, the way even a well-ordered condo careens towards anarchy with the addition of one feral cat or a dead girlfriend’s ghost.

Xtra Magazine: Toronto at its Most Glitteringly Sad

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Xtra Magazine: Toronto at its Most Glitteringly Sad

XTRA* Magazine / Casey Plett • Posted: September 21, 2020

Kristyn Dunnion’s new story collection “Stoop City” blooms with characters down on their luck.

Smoothing linens with military precision is an unsung tradition in the janitorial arts. A properly made bed can console the itinerant, the broken-hearted, the homeless. Staging properties, she has learned over the years, is mostly about subtraction, about deleting personal history, something she takes very seriously. She continues to take things away with total exactitude, one after the other, until a purity in openness emerges, a balancing of light and air and material objects set in space; the lie of neutrality. This is the soothing of wounds, when complete; the calming of sorrows. Progress and satisfaction, here on earth.

STOOP CITY out September 2020 on Biblioasis

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STOOP CITY out September 2020 on Biblioasis

I’m thrilled to say my new story collection, STOOP CITY, is breaching Canadian bookshelves this September. You can pre-order copies at your local, friendly indie bookstore! If you’re in Toronto, try www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com , who partners […]