Nicole Hunter is a summa cum laude graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College, where she received the A.W. "Bud" Collins Jr. Writing Prize. She is working on her MFA in creative writing at Cleveland State University.
Waiting for the World to End is Hunter’s award-winning first novel. She has finished her second novel, Continuum, and is completing her third, If Jamie Looked Up. Also in progress: Peace Through Fiction: The Field Guide, Hunter’s first nonfiction work.
Born and raised in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Hunter has lived in New Haven, Connecticut, and rural Washington state, and now resides near Cleveland with her husband, two sons, and two cats.
Hunter supports Project: LEARN, Cleveland’s largest organization for adult literacy, through volunteerism, fundraising, and the donation of book royalties and speaking fees. She also serves on Project: LEARN’s Board of Directors.
Hunter is a student of improvisational performance with the Cleveland troupe Friends With Benefits…where charity is always a member of the cast. FWB Improv donates proceeds from their performances to charities ranging from Cleveland food banks to Heifer International.