her 40s. She was an editor and contributor for the online boxing magazine cyberboxingzone.com. In the 1990s, Dunn wrote a regular column on boxing for PDXS , in which she at one time provided detailed criticism of Evander Holyfield's sportsmanship in his controversial fight with Mike Tyson. She won the Dorothea Lange—Paul Taylor Award in 2004 for her work on School of Hard Knocks: The Struggle for Survival in America's Toughest Boxing Gyms. Her essays on boxing were collected in her 2009 collection One Ring Circus: Dispatches from the World of Boxing. Her third published novel was Geek Love (1989), and it was by far her best-known work. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. It was a finalist, also, for the Bram Stoker Award for first horror novel. Dunn described her memory of when she began writing it in the late 1970s, walking to Portland's Washington Park Rose Garden, contemplating nature versus nurture and the genesis of the book with its publication in 1989. It remains a strong seller, with over a half-million copies sold, never having gone out of print. In 1989, Dunn announced that she was working on a new novel, entitled The Cut Man. As of 1999, she was still working on the project. In 2008, it was reported that publisher Alfred A. Knopf had scheduled The Cut Man for release in September. The novel remains unpublished. An excerpt was published in the summer 2010 issue of The Paris Review under the title "Rhonda Discovers Art". In 2012, Dunn reunited with Paul Pomerantz, her boyfriend from Reed College, and they married. Dunn died on May 11, 2016. Her son stated her death was from complications of lung cancer. Posthumous Publications In 2022, the third novel she wrote, Toad (1971), with an Introduction by Molly Crabapple, was published posthumously by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, making it her fourth published novel. (Thus, it was written about 18 years before Geek Love.) Harper and Row, who published her novels Attic and Truck, also bought the rights to this as well in 1971. However, they ultimately did not publish it. (“Nobody in this book is likable!” she was told.) It is about “a woman who has retreated into a life of isolation following a breakdown reflects on her time as an impoverished college student in the early 1970s in Portland, Oregon at the height of the women’s liberation