DIa VanGUnten
Dia VanGunten is an inventive voice. Her work is modern and painfully familiar, but it's always imbued with magic.
Thirty works released in Fall 2022
After a 20 year hiatus, VanGunten recently returned to publishing. Prior to June of 2022, she worked in isolation.
2022 PUSHCART NOMINATIONS for Pink Zombie Rose's story Heart Of December published in the "Embodiment" Issue of Fatal Flaw (December 2022) and White Teeth / Black Leather publsihed in the "Desire" Issue of X by Viridian Door (November 2022
The creator of Pink Zombie Rose, a series of Graphic Novels...
Story By Dia / Art By Beppi
Major Arcana, a Pink Zombie Rose collection of 22 stories will be released in 2023 by Q, the graphic imprint of Querencia Press.
100 Subtexts, Apple in the dark, Big Bob, Black Leaves, caustic Frolic NYU experimental Journal, Cowboy Jamboree, Cringe, Cream Scene Carnival. Deadbeat Poets, Dipity Literary, Dreams In Hiding, Fatal Flaw, funemployment Press, God's Cruel joke, The Gorko Gazette, Growlery, Gysophilia, In The mood Magazine, Kinda Weird Magazine, Not Ghosts But Angels Anthology, On the High Literary Journal, Open Sewers, No Nothing, Outlander, Polyester, Querencia Press, Run Amok Books, Scavengers Lit, Soft Star, Solstice LiTerary, Viridian Door, X by Viridian Door
In Kinda Weird Magazine, there's "Contact," an ode to radio that is both jubilant and heart-wrecking. In Polyester, there's "On Snooze," an anti-ode to dick pics and the men who send them. In Cringe, the frenetic "Weight" confronts systemic sexism under the lens of celebrity scandal. In Outlander, Bewebbed is a love letter to VanGunten's varied online connections. Art, culture, fashion, feminism, music. While distinctly cerebral, Dia VanGunten's CNF has playful intimacy. Her conversational, confessional style is informed by pop culture, punk rock and neuroscience. These same elements are afoot in her fiction, as ongoing themes in Pink Zombie Rose.
DIA VANGUNTEN IS ON STAFF AT OUTLANDER
Editor-In-Chief of Cream Scene Carnival - An Arts & Culture Magazine
Fiction / Non-Fiction / CNF / Speculative CNF / Comics / Poetry / Photography
Polyester Magazine (Cultire and Gender, out of London) September 2022
Kinda Weird Magazine (Music, out of London) November 2022
Twin Binge
In the Mood Magazine (TV / media, out of London) December 2022
Cringe (Cuture and Gender, London) November 2022
Cartoon Archetypes
In the Mood Magazine (Summer 2023)
Going Fungal With Michael Campbell
Cream Scene Carnival (May 2023)
En Caul
Solstice Literary / Summer Issue (June 2022) Memoir / CNF
Gladiator
Run Amok Books (June 2022) writing on Craft / cnf
Dipity Literary Mag (October 2022) Poem
Dipity Literary Mag (October 2022) Poem / CNF
Outlander (November 2022) CNF
Outlander (November 2022) CNF
Outlander (October 31st 2022)
Crossroads
Caustic Frolic (December 2022)
Outlander "Incognito" November 2022
Soft Star (November 2022)
Aftershaft
Cream Scene Carnival (December)
Stop the World And Melt
Querencia Press / Not Ghosts But Spirits II (Winter 2023)
Heart of December (Comic)
Scavengers Lit (winter 2023)
On The Blink
Apocalypse Confidential (Valentines 2023)
Somebody
Cream Scene Carnival (Valentines 2023)
Strings & Attractors
Fatal Flaw - Agency (Winter 2023)
In The Air (In The Teeth)
Querencia Press / Not Ghosts But Spirits III (Summer 2023)
Body Without Organs
God's Cruel Joke (Summer 2023)
Fully illustrated by Beppi! (Also available as text only - two separate books)
Released by Q, the graphic imprint of Querencia Press
Open Sewers
X by Viridian Door -- Desire / Senses Issue
100 Subtexts -- Halloween issue
Secret Of The Atom
Funemployment Press -- Autumn Anthology 2022
Croxxroads
Caustic Frolic -- Chaos issue
In The Air (In The Teeth)
Querencia Press / Not Ghosts But Spirits III (Summer 2023)
Body Without Organs
God's Cruel Joke (Summer 2023)
Fully illustrated by Beppi! (Also available as text only - two separate books)
Released by Q, the graphic imprint of Querencia Press
Books / collections /Anthologies
Bob Dylan Anthology
Coming Winter of 2023
A collection of stories written by Dia & Illustrated by Beppi will be released in 2023 by Q, the graphic imprint of Querencia Press.
Major Arcana - a collection of 22 Pink Zombie Rose comics & stories.
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