Shantha J. Bunyan, a queer person of color, is a scuba divemaster currently land-locked by circumstance in her native Colorado, USA. A former surgical technician, she holds a BA in Neuroscience from Colorado College. After giving in to her wanderlust in 2014, she spent the majority of the past six years living abroad, traveling to over 35 countries in that time, and exploring the world both above and below the surface.
Though she finds true freedom under the sea, she also finds joy in writing, photography, and nature. Sometimes she manages her chronic pain and invisible illnesses and sometimes they try to manage her; but while she’s fighting, she writes. When she can’t be in the ocean or guiding dives, she uses some of her rejected dive photos as backgrounds for found poetry she makes from various magazines and junk mailings.
Her poetry can be seen in such publications as DoveTales, An International Journal of the Arts: Resistance published by Writing for Peace; 140Max Magazine; What Rough Beast; The Silent World in Her Vase; Star 82 Review; iō Literary Journal; The Closed Eye Open; Sad Girls Club; “Put into Words, My Love,” a Petite Pomme, by Pomme Journal; and The Ice Colony. Some of her travel adventures can be found at RandomPiecesofPeace.com.
Tempered Runes Press Contributions
“Road to Change” – Poem – Volume 1, Number 1 of Bluing the Blade