Justin Hunt grew up in rural Kansas. His poetry and nonfiction are shaped by his Kansas youth, the loss of his adult son and only child, his years living and working in Germany and Latin America, and the urge to leave behind something of himself and his time.

 

Fluent in German and Spanish, Justin has won several poetry contests, including the Live Canon International Poetry Award (U.K.), the Prime Number Magazine Poetry Award, and the Porter Fleming Literary Competition. He has been a finalist or received honorable mentions in numerous other competitions. His work appears in New Ohio Review, Five Points, Barrow Street, Southern Poetry Review, North American Review, Harpur Palate, Michigan Quarterly Review, Four Way Review, American Literary Review, Terrain.org, Puerto del Sol, Arts and Letters and The Florida Review, among many other publications. 

 

Justin's full-length poetry collection, Requiem in Wide-Open Minor, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press. He is also working on a memoir about his father, who was born in 1897 to Kansas settlers. He lives with his wife, Janet, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.