Tayler Raven Hanxi Bunge is a writer, teacher, and student who was born in China and raised in Arvada, Colorado. Her writing is often about adoption, womanhood, bodies, and the American suburbs. 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 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest - Judged by Venita Blackburn (2025), 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 mood disorders, dance troupes, and indie film.