Constance Hunting

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Constance Hunting (1925-2006), the poet, was widely known in the North-Eastern United States, particularly in her home state of Rhode Island, her adopted state of Indiana, and later in Maine where she taught English literature and creative writing at the University of Maine in Orono until her death on April 5th, 2006. Hunting received her B.A from Brown University in 1947, studied at Duke University from 1950-1953, and then worked at Purdue until 1968. From that time, she lived in Orono, Maine with her husband Robert, who was Chair of the English department at the University of Maine until his retirement.

Hunting, while trained as a classical pianist, was best known for her work as a poet, and her promotion of other Maine writers through the Puckerbrush Review literary magazine which she established in 1971. She was also the founder and editor of Puckerbrush Press, which, over the twenty-eight years of its existence, published a great variety of work by many writers, domestic and international, including May Sarton, James Kelman, and several figures from the Bloomsbury Group.