Stark Hunter

Born in Whittier, California in 1952, Stark Hunter was an English teacher for 38 years before retiring from the classroom in 2017. He has written and published 16 books, which are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble: In A Gadda Da Vida, a novel, published in 2002, Carnivorous Avenues, a poetry volume published in 2004, Flies, a short novel published in 2005, Private Diaries, a satire published in 2006, Voices From Clark Cemetery, a poetry volume published in 2013, Cocktails For the Soul, a poetry anthology published in 2013, Voices From Mt. Olive Cemetery, a poetry volume published in 2018, Digested by the Dust, another poetry anthology, published in 2018, Scenes From the Cerebellum, published in 2019, Monster Trees, published in 2020, White Sidewalks in 2021, Covid Gardens in 2021, Pink Oleanders in 2022, Mind Tavern in 2024, The Desolation Bonbons in 2024 and The Night Sedans in 2025.

Mr. Hunter’s poetry has been included in the following Poetry Anthologies: Stars In Our Hearts, Visions, published 2012 (World Poetry Movement); In My Lifetime, Chronicles, published 2013 (Eber and Wein Publishing); PS: It’s Poetry, An Anthology Of Eclectic Contemporary Poems Written By Poets From Around the Globe, published 2020; Spillwords Press E-Zine a dozen times since 2021, the Lothlorien Poetry Journal in 2021, the Synchronized Chaos literary journal in 2022, Silent Spark Press in 2022, The Hong Kong Review in 2024, and Slipstream Press in 2025.

Fourteen of Mr. Hunter’s poems from Voices From Clark Cemetery were adopted and set to music by Dr. George Mabry, composer and former conductor of the Nashville Symphony Chorus, for his work, Voices, a musical drama which was performed at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee in 2015.