title: Katherine Dunn
text: Katherine Karen Dunn (October 24, 1945 – May 11, 2016) was an American novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer and poet. She was born in Garden City, Kansas, but was raised in Portland, Oregon.  She was best known for the novel Geek Love (1989). 
  
  Dunn died of lung cancer on May 11, 2016 in Portland, aged 70.
  
  References
  
  Other websites
  An interview with Guernica Magazine about her new book, One Ring Circus 
  What The Hell Ever Happened To... Katherine Dunn? LitReactor, 2012
  Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
  
  1945 births
  2016 deaths
  Deaths from lung cancer
  Writers from Kansas
  Writers from Portland, Oregon