Austin Bunn is the author of Short Film Screenwriting: A Craft Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury), the short story collection The Brink: stories (Harper Perennial), and, with Christine Vachon, A Killer Life: How An Independent Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond (Simon and Schuster), #88 on The Hollywood Reporter’s “100 Greatest Film Books of All Time.” He wrote the script for Kill Your Darlings (Sony Pictures Classics) with the film's director John Krokidas, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and won the International Days Prize at the Venice Film Festival.

His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Zoetrope, The Village Voice, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Science and Nature Writing, Best American Fantasy, and elsewhere. He has written feature screenplays for Fox 2000, Lionsgate, Participant Media, Page1, and served as a mentor at the Screenwriters' Colony (Nantucket) and Outfest Screenwriting Lab. His award-winning short films and documentaries, "Lavender Hill,” "In the Hollow," “Campfire,” “Ghosts", “Ascent” and “The Suck” have screened nationally and internationally at Frameline (SF), OutFest (LA), InsideOut (Toronto), Provincetown International Film Festival (MA), Sidewalk Film Festival (AL), and beyond. “Farm Grrrl Folk Punk,” a collaboratively produced short doc made with students, will debut at the Sound Unseen Film Festival this fall.

His Audible Original “DENALI” is due out from Audible in 2025. His monologue, "Basement Story," won the Missouri Review Audio Essay Prize and has been broadcast on WBEZ, Third Coast, Australian Radio, and Michigan Public Radio. The audiobook of The Brink won the Audie 2017 for best fiction collection from Audible. He teaches at Cornell University.