Publisher
Cunningham was publisher at McPhee Gribble/Penguin for two years and Trade Publisher at Allen & Unwin for ten, where she was known for commissioning and editing innovative fiction and non-fiction. At McPhee Gribble the books she worked on included I Was a Teenage Fascist by David Greason, Glad All Over: The Countdown Years 1974-1987 by Peter Wilmoth and Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave.
At Allen & Unwin she published Mark Davis's Gangland: Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism.
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