About

Hunter Blackwell is a graduate of Northern Arizona University, where they obtained their Master’s Fine Arts in Creative Writing. While at NAU, they served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant with three semesters’ worth experience of teaching English Composition and one semester’s worth of experience teaching Introduction to Creative Writing. They previously studied at the College of William and Mary where they obtained BA in Psychology.

Their work has appeared in Rose Quartz Magazine (now defunct), The Write Launch, Twist in Time Literary Magazine, Mid-Heaven Magazine, Ink &Nebula (now defunct), Barren Magazine, Crêpe&Penn, The Athena Review, Nightingale & Sparrow, Kissing Dynamite, Dusty Poetry Magazine, ang(st) zine, Knight’s Library Magazine, Parenthesis Journal, and The Hellebore.

In 2021, Hunter presented at the 6th annual Creative Writing Studies Organization Conference. Hunter attended VQR’s Summer 2019 Writer’s Conference. In 2018, they received the Gorowny-Owen Prize in Poetry, Second Place from the College of William and Mary. From the same school, they received the 2017 Newton Blanchard Endowment for Fiction.

While poetry has been the longest love, Hunter found a passion and love for fiction, and world building during her undergraduate career. Current passions include fantasy and science fiction short stories that feature Black women as the main voice, short stories of the mundane that include fantastical twists, and poetry that navigates their personal identity as a Black, Native, and bisexual in America. Additionally, their poetry focuses on recent health journeys in attempts to receive a diagnosis for their current condition.

When Hunter is not writing, they enjoy baking. Most of their attempts at baking are box mix, but they try. Hunter enjoys gaming, Spotify playlists, and trying their hand cosplays.