Milwaukee-based writer

Robert Bundy is an award-winning writer that has lived and worked in Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and now Milwaukee. For more than three years, he has served as the Editor of Milwaukee Home & Fine Living, a monthly shelter publication that showcases the best in architecture, design, fine arts, performing arts, travel, and gourmet cuisine. He is the former Head Writer & Editor for Lemon Magazine, the international pop culture publication which he helped found. In addition, he also does extensive freelance work, writes a monthly music column and regular travel features for MetroParent Magazine, contributes regular travel stories to Milwaukeemoms.com, and is a featured essayist on Public Radio's Lake Effect.

Rob began writing professionally at Chicago’s Second City, where he practiced improvisation under Stephen Colbert and wrote and performed comedy for Second City productions and the touring company. His screenwriting has won awards at the Austin Heart of Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival. His published work is wide-ranging, including essays on architecture, travel and contemporary culture, interviews with major figures in film, literature and music, profiles of famous artists, and poetry, some of which has been translated into other languages and published internationally. Rob may even show you some of his poems, if you promise not to laugh.

While in Los Angeles, Rob helped create the critically acclaimed periodical GUM Magazine, where he served as Associate Editor and was that magazine’s most prolific writer. As Senior Writer of Ethix Media, he wrote hundreds of design and shelter-related articles as well as ad copy and promotional materials for the web.

Recent work has been nationally syndicated and appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Newsday, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Milwaukee Home & Fine Living Magazine, Lemon Magazine, MetroParent Magazine, Milwaukeemoms.com, and The Book of the Prague Marathon.

Rob is a graduate of Chicago’s DePaul University. He also studied under Peter Wood, Artistic Director of the National Theater of Great Britain, Stephen Colbert and the late Del Close.