Tayler Raven Hanxi Bunge is a writer, teacher, and student. She is a transracial adoptee of Chinese descent. Published or forthcoming work can be found in McSweeney’s, Southeast Review, swamp pink, Porter House Review, Isele Magazine, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere. Her short story “Glowworm” was selected for publication in the Best of Isele Anthology. She won the Southeast Review’s Short Story Contest (2025) and was a semi-finalist for the American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Prize (2025). Her writing has received support from the Tin House Summer Workshop, and she is an Assistant Fiction Editor at The Offing.

She is a current MFA Candidate in Fiction at the University of Virginia. She is working on a novel about angry women, incarceration, radicalization, and the American Southwest.