Carolyn Dunn, BA, MA, is a wife, mother, daughter, journalist, teacher, poet, fiction writer, and catechist born in Southern California. Her work has appeared in the anthologies and many articles have appeared in journals in the US, Canada and Germany. She is also a former radio producer and host whose work appeared on National Native News and does voice-overs for film and television. Currently, she is co-host of American Indian Airwaves (Coyote Radio) for KPFK-FM in Los Angeles
Carolyn has taught at Humboldt State University, Four Winds Indian School in Chico, California, and California Polytechnic State University, Pomona. She is the founding director (with Tina Toledo Rizzo) of the American Indian Theatre Collective. Currently pursuing a PhD from USC where she is an Irvine Fellow, she is a member of the all woman Native drum group The Mankillers, whose cd's were released on Without Rez Records, and the indigenous rock band Red Hawk.
In addition to her academic work, Carolyn also sits on the board of directors for Red Nation Celebration a California non-profit organization that produces media events that raise money and awareness for American Indian issues and concerns surrounding children and elders across Native America. Carolyn also serves on the Advisory Board of the Interstitial Arts Foundation a group of artists and writers celebrating genre crossing borders in literature and art.
She lives with her husband, James Anderson (Choctaw) and their children in Southern California.