Tayler Raven Hanxi Bunge is a writer in Charlottesville, VA.
Tayler Raven Hanxi Bunge is a writer, teacher, student, and transracial adoptee who was born in China and raised in Arvada, Colorado. Published work can be found in McSweeney’s, Isele Magazine, Barrelhouse, Mochi Mag, Ghost City, and elsewhere. Her short story “Glowworm” was selected for publication in the Best of Isele Anthology. She won the Southeast Review’s Short-Short Story Contest - Judged by Venita Blackburn (2025), was longlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize, and has received the Francis J. Malecek, S.J. Award for excellence in philosophy. Her writing has received support from the Tin House Summer Workshop, and she is an Assistant Fiction Editor at The Offing. She lives in Charlottesville where she is a current MFA Candidate in Fiction at the University of Virginia. She is working on a novel about anger, dance troupes, and the American Southwest.
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“Victim Impact Statement,” Southeast Review, forthcoming - Winner, Southeast Review’s World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest - Judged by Venita Blackburn, Fall 2025
“Whales,” Zaum Magazine, print only, May 2025
“Glowworm,” Isele Magazine, The Best of Isele Anthology, Jan 2022
“Kira and Anthony and Ellen on Sunday,” Barrelhouse, print only, May 2024
With China ending international adoptions, I am now a blip, Mochi Mag, Oct 2024
I pace the house looking for the dog, Vagabond City Lit, Feb 2022
I’m Sorry About Your Husband, Ghost City Review, Sep 2021
Venice, CNMN Mag, Sep 2020
The Man Who Ate 1,000 Cheesesteaks, Eater Philly, Jan 2022
Magic, Five Minute Lit
Teacher, Tenderness Lit, 2018
Hi, I’m the Loud American Guy at Your Hostel, McSweeney’s, June 2019
13 Destinations for the Best Pho in Philly, Eater Philly, Nov 2021