Dia VanGunten

Dia VanGunten focuses on intimate, character-centered storytelling. Sometimes that character is herself. Her current fiction project — Pink Zombie Rose — is an existential love story set at a societal tipping point. EiC of Cream Scene Carnival

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New Orleans , LA, United States

Books

Book cover of Major Arcana by Dia VanGunten

Major Arcana A collection of 22 Pink Zombie Rose Stories & Comics Querencia Press , 2023

Selected work (30 publications)

In The Mood Magazine, 2023

Cartoon Archetypes Miss Piggy knows she’s bacon, so she can’t figure out why Kermit is always playing games

Querencia Press, 2023

In The Air (In The Teeth)She says that the way that people say things, aloud, but she is surprised by that. She is embarrassed at the way it leaves her mouth, gray and dusty, like gravel.

God's Cruel Joke - July 2023, 2023

Body Of Organs In the oily soil beneath the overpass, glittered with glass, and littered with plastic, two wild dogs scrap over your heart which you meant to bury very deep in case you wanted to go back for it.

Strings & AttractorsWe’re strung with the threads of time, in articulated skeletons, so it shouldn’t be this easy to slip into the past

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