Rose Bunch’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Tin House, New Letters, Gulf Coast, The Greensboro Review, River Styx, Fugue and Poem, Memoir, Story.  Winner of the 2010 New Letters Dorothy C. Chappon essay contest, a two-time Pushcart Prize Nominee and third prize winner of the Playboy Fiction Contest, she received her MFA from the University of Montana and completed a PhD at Florida State University in fall of 2011.  As a Fulbright Full Grant Scholar to Indonesia she spent the 2010/11 academic year living in Bali, and is now completing a novel set in the Arkansas Ozarks.