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English lecturer at the University of Auckland, teaching literature, creative writing and publishing, from 1975. She has described herself as "always completely open about being gay", and said this was difficult in the 1970s because "there were not a lot of books on the subject, and
177:(born 1953) is a New Zealand novelist, poet, anthologist, lecturer and publishing consultant. She has edited several anthologies of feminist, lesbian and Māori/Pasifika writing, including in 1986 the first anthology of new women's writing in New Zealand. She is also known for her novel
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shows "contemporary provocateurs rolling unchallenged and perhaps unchallengeable across the local literary landscape". In 1997 Dunsford was
International Woman of the Year in Publishing (UK/Europe). She has published a non-fiction work,
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noted "Dunsford's stable of lesbian, heterosexual, established and new writers ... makes her probably the most enterprising and eclectic independent publisher of women's fiction". Writers she had published at that time included
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Since 1990, Dunsford has been the director of a publishing consultancy firm, Dunsford
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as "lyrical to the edge of lushness, but buoyant with belief and commitment". She has written a number of novels since, many of which feature the character Cowrie from her first novel, as well as a volume of poetry,
355:(1990), which was published in both German and English. Her novels have been translated into German and Turkish. Many of her novels are published by Australian feminist publisher,
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there was not a strong, healthy gay culture". From 1983 to 1986 she taught New
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Dunsford edited the first collection of previously unpublished New
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Painting life in extremes: Charles Maturin and the Gothic genre
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New Zealand writer, anthologist and lecturer (born 1953)
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