Dianna Gunn
Canadian author and editor of dark fantasy and horror exploring themes of trauma, healing, and autonomy.
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diannalgunn @ gmail.com
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Author bios
Short version
Dianna Gunn is a fantasy and horror author known for her Moonshadow Rising Duology (completed in 2024), Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror (released in 2025), and Woman of Sorrow and Blood (releasing in March 2026). You can find out more about her books at authordiannagunn.com. She is also the founder of Weeknight Writers, a social enterprise dedicated to providing support for fiction writers.
Medium length
Dianna Gunn is a freelance writer by day and a fantasy author by night. Her dark fantasy novel, Moonshadow’s Guardian, was released in November 2018 and followed with Moonshadow’s Champion in 2024, completing the Moonshadow Rising Duology.
Gunn’s shorter fiction has appeared in Broken Olive Branches, Tiny Frontiers, Tiny Dungeons, and the award-winning Nothing Without Us, Too. She also published many of her own flash fiction pieces in Killer Debt: An Anthology of Murder, as well as publishing others’ stories in Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror.
In 2026, Gunn returned to long-form fiction with the release of her first gothic horror novel, Woman of Sorrow and Blood. With this project completed, she plans to return to fantasy next, writing a new series in the world of Moonshadow.
Gunn is also the founder of Weeknight Writers, a social enterprise dedicated to providing accessible community and educational support for fiction writers. She has hosted a variety of virtual events through Weeknight Writers, including one-day virtual conferences known as Storycrafting Sessions and First Draft Fall, a replacement for the now-dead NaNoWriMo.
Long version
Dianna Gunn is a freelance tech writer by day and a fantasy author by night. Her dark fantasy novel, Moonshadow’s Guardian, was released in November 2018 and followed with Moonshadow’s Champion in 2024, completing the Moonshadow Rising Duology.
Gunn expanded into writing shorter fiction in 2020, with stories appearing in the award-winning Nothing Without Us, Too and the Broken Olive Branches anthology. In 2024, she launched murder commissions, custom death scenes written for folks in her community. She has since written over 40 murders and compiled the best of them in Killer Debt: An Anthology of Murder, released in 2025. She also edited and released Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror, a hard-hitting anthology confronting the terror many people of marginalized genders live with every day, in 2025.
In 2026, Gunn returned to long-form fiction with the release of her first gothic horror novel, Woman of Sorrow and Blood. With this project completed, she plans to return to fantasy next, writing a new series in the world of Moonshadow. She’s also continuing to write murder commissions and explore short fiction projects on the side.
Gunn is also the founder of Weeknight Writers, a social enterprise dedicated to providing accessible community and educational support for fiction writers. She has hosted a variety of virtual events through Weeknight Writers, including one-day virtual conferences known as Storycrafting Sessions and First Draft Fall, a replacement for the now-dead NaNoWriMo.
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Words of praise
See praise for Woman of Sorrow and Blood
See praise for Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror
See praise for Killer Debt: An Anthology of Murder
See praise for the Moonshadow books
Award Nominations
Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror is nominated for the 2026 Splatterpunk Awards