Claire Ross Dunn works as a writer, story editor and producer, primarily in the world of television. Her credits include several rom coms for streaming on channels such as Hallmark, Lifetime and City-TV, the CBC’s Little Mosque on the Prairie, Degrassi: The Next Generation for which Claire earned The Alliance for Children and Television Award for Excellence, The Smart Woman Survival Guide, and Wingin’ It, earning Claire a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Writing in a Children’s/Youth Program. Claire’s first novel, At Last Count, was released by Invisible Publishing in 2022 and made the Globe 100: The Best Books of 2022 list. Lost in France, her second novel, is due to be released by Alcove Press and Penguin Random House in June of 2026. In 2020 Claire and her husband Kirk founded A Yarn or Two Arts Collective, under whose auspices they have written and produced their critically acclaimed plays The Knitting Pilgrim and Spycraft.
Kirk Dunn is an award-winning writer, fibre artist, and performer, best known for his one-man show, The Knitting Pilgrim, which he co-wrote with his wife, Claire. It tells the story of his journey knitting three large tapestries, in the style of stained glass, exploring the commonalities and conflicts between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The installation took him fifteen years to complete, and Kirk has performed the resulting one-man show over 120 times in 6 countries to acclaim. Kirk has also written three shows for young audiences, two of which are award-winning, and has written for TV as well as performed for stages across the country. In 2025, Kirk and Claire produced and toured their play Spycraft across Ontario to rave reviews and sold-out audiences.