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Official Biography

Hugh “H.D.” Hunter is  from Atlanta, Georgia. He’s the author of Torment: A Novella and Something Like Right, which won the 2025 BCALA Children and Youth Literary award for a debut novel. Hugh is also the winner of several international indie book awards for multicultural fiction. You can find his short fiction online in Porter House Review and The Meadowlark Review. 

Hugh authored the Futureland series, including Battle for the Park, which was named a Georgia Center for the Book 2023 Book All Young Georgians Should Read and the 2023-2024  VAReads Chapter Book of the Year. Battle for the Park is also a 2024 selection for the CORE Excellence in Children’s Science Fiction Notable list and the 2025 Read Across America selection for the state of Georgia. As of 2025, Battle for the Park is a finalist for both the Hawaii and Florida state reader’s choice awards. Futureland: The Nightmare Hour and Futureland: The Architect Games are the second and third books in the series. 

Hugh is 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 Tin House, 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), or his website: https://hughhdhunter.com