AD Dunn

Agent: Adriana Stimola

AD Dunn is a trans writer, editor, abolitionist, and lawyer in training.

Early on their mother threw the television out when AD let it slip that they aspired to be Magnum P.I. when they grew up. Ever since AD has led a successful career in cracking crimes of the imagination, namely in the form of confronting false notions about gender and what it means to live outside assumption.

They are co-author of two cookbooks, Dinner at the Long Table and Saltie: A Cookbook and served for a decade as editor of Diner Journal. They have been published by Brooklyn Based, The Center for Fiction, Hunger Mountain, Brooklyn Rail, and had a short story featured in the anthology It Occurs to Me that I Am America alongside many of their heroes.

They spent the year they got top surgery publishing a small magazine at Rikers Island with a group of trans and cis women and trans men, which strengthened their steadfast belief in carceral abolition. Once they took acid before getting on a plane that almost collided with a helicopter, mid-air above Mexico City. Their cat is their harshest critic.