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Official Biography

Hugh “H.D.” Hunter is a storyteller, teaching artist, and community organizer from Atlanta, Georgia. He’s the author of Torment: A Novella and Something Like Right, as well as the winner of several international indie book awards for multicultural fiction. You can find his work online in Porter House Review.

Hugh is also the author of the Futureland series, including Battle for the Park, which was named a Georgia Center for the Book 2023 Book All Young Georgians Should Read. Battle for the Park is also a 2024 selection for the CORE Excellence in Children’s Science Fiction Notable list. Futureland: The Nightmare Hour and Futureland: The Architect Games are the second and third books in the series.

Hugh holds a couple degrees that don’t matter a ton. He’s an alum of the inaugural Tin House Young Adult Fiction Workshop. He’s served as both a moderator and panelist at FIYAHCON. He’s a “cocoa” founder of the Voodoonauts Summer Fellowship for Black speculative fiction writers, and his teaching credits include PocketMFA, Clarion West Online, Catapult, and a Writer-in-Residence position with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.

Hugh is committed to stories about Black kids and their many expansive worlds. Connect with Hugh on Instagram @hdhunterbooks.