Meet The Author

Steve Bunk

Steve Bunk returned to Idaho in 2003, after more than two decades on the road as a journalist. For six years, he wrote about biological research for The Scientist, based successively in Philadelphia, Albuquerque, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. He was a writer in Australia for 15 years, in Sydney, Darwin, Perth, and Hobart. He coauthored a nonfiction best-seller, wrote two travel books, and freelanced for the Australian editions of Time, Playboy, and Geo, among other magazines. He traveled widely, reporting from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, China, and Sri Lanka. Earlier, Steve put in a stultifying year as senior writer in marketing communications at the Boise headquarters of a multinational corporation. Before that, he lived in Athens, Greece, where he wrote for an English-text tourism magazine in the daytime and was night city editor of the English-text daily newspaper. Editor of a statewide magazine in Idaho for the past half-dozen years, he is also a guy who appreciates what being a father has done for him.