DEBORAH J. HUNTER is a Tulsa, Oklahoma poet, spoken word artist, playwright, essayist, actor, teaching artist, workshop facilitator and social justice activist. She received a 2020 Greenwood Art Project (Bloomberg) grant to produce her original play, Porches, set during the years following the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and staged during the Centennial remembrance. She was presented with a Woman of the Year Pinnacle Award in 2018, the Jingle Feldman Artist Award in 2000, and was a 2013 Oklahoma Poet Laureate finalist. Her poetry has been published in literary journals, magazines, anthologies and other printed media. A staunch and longtime advocate and educator on issues pertaining to mental illness and homelessness, Hunter’s chapter, “Violence and the Homeless Population: Perpetrators or Victims?” appears in the academic series, Violence and Abuse in Society: Understanding a Global Crisis.
Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry 