In 2009, Deborah Hunn was a lecturer in Professional and Creative Writing at Western Australia's Curtin University. She has taught at the University of Adelaide, Flinders University, and the University of Western Australia, and completed her PhD at UWA in 2001. She has been a judge of writing prizes and a referee reader for literary journals, and has published short fiction, reviews, and critical essays on topics ranging from Modernist women's writing to the work of Christos Tsiolkas.