Tayler Raven Hanxi Bunge is a writer, teacher, and student. She is a transracial adoptee of Chinese descent and grew up in Arvada, Colorado. Published work can be found in McSweeney’s, Southeast Review, swamp pink, Porter House, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere. Her short story “Glowworm” was selected for publication in the 2022 Best of Isele Anthology and she won the 2025 Southeast Review Short Story Contest. Her writing has received support from the 2025 Tin House Summer Workshop, and she is a 2026 Grantee from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.

Currently, she is an MFA Candidate and Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction at the University of Virginia. She is finishing a novel about angry women.