Constance Hunting

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is orphaned as few or no other articles link to it.
Please help introduce links in articles on related topics. (July 2006)

Constance Hunting (1925-2006), the poet and publisher, 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 at 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 lived in West Lafayette, IN, home of Purdue University 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, Angelica Garnett, and other figures from the Bloomsbury Group. Here is a partial list of Puckerbrush Press authors: Michael Alpert, Virgil Bisset, Farnham Blair, James Boswell, Tony Brinkley, Rebecca Cummings, Martha Todd Dudman, Christopher Fahy, Angelica Garnett, Maxim Gorky, Chenoweth Hall, Sonya Hess, Merle Hillman, Mary Gray Hughes, Kathleen Kranidas, Michael McMahon, Muska Nagel, Thelma Nason, Deborah Pease, Sanford Phippen, Pat Ranzoni, Harvena Richter, Mark Rutter, Vita Sackville-West, Lee Sharkey, Margaret Shipley, Leslie Stephen, Mrs. , Robert Taylor, Paul Weinman, Douglas Young.