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name: Tim Hunt
about: A fourth generation native of Northern California, Tim Hunt was born in Calistoga and raised primarily in Sebastopol, two small towns north of San Francisco. Educated at Cornell University, he has taught American literature at several schools, including Washington State University and Deep Springs College. At the end of 2016, he retired from Illinois State University, where he was University Professor of English. He and his wife Susan, a retired respiratory therapist, have two children: John, a visual artist, and Jessica, a musician and composer. Hunt once claimed to have been the rhythm guitarist in the band Derridean Debris, though to the best of his knowledge no such band ever existed. He is, though, fortunate enough to own a fine 12-str A fourth generation native of Northern California, Tim Hunt was born in Calistoga and raised primarily in Sebastopol, two small towns north of San Francisco. Educated at Cornell University, he has taught American literature at several schools, including Washington State University and Deep Springs College. At the end of 2016, he retired from Illinois State University, where he was University Professor of English. He and his wife Susan, a retired respiratory therapist, have two children: John, a visual artist, and Jessica, a musician and composer. Hunt once claimed to have been the rhythm guitarist in the band Derridean Debris, though to the best of his knowledge no such band ever existed. He is, though, fortunate enough to own a fine 12-string that he promises himself he will eventually learn to play as well as it deserves.Hunt’s scholarly publications include Kerouac’s Crooked Road: Development of a Fiction, The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac’s Quest for Spontaneous Prose, and the five volumes of The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Hunt has also published four collections of poetry: Fault Lines, The Tao of Twang, Poem’s Poems &amp; Other Poems, and Ticket Stubs &amp; Liner Notes (winner of the 2018 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award), received three Pushcart Prize nominations, and been awarded the Chester H. Jones National Poetry Prize for the poem “Lake County Elegy.” ...more