Discipline: Literature – poetry

Constance Hunting

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Orono, ME
MacDowell Fellowships: 1973
Constance Hunting (1925–2006) was an American poet and publisher, widely known in the Northeastern United States. She taught English literature and creative writing at the University of Maine at Orono until her death on April 5th, 2006. Hunting received her B.A. from Pembroke College at Brown University in 1947, studied at Duke University from 1950–1953, and then lived in West Lafayette, IN, home of Purdue University, until 1968. From that time, she lived in Orono, Maine with her husband Robert, who was chair of the English department at UMO until his retirement. Hunting trained as a classical pianist, but is best known for her work as a poet, and her promotion of other Maine writers through the Puckerbrush Review literary magazine, which she established in 1971. She was also the founder and editor of Puckerbrush Press, which, over the 28 years of its existence, published a great variety of work by many writers, domestic and international, including May Sarton, James Kelman, Angelica Garnett, and other figures from the Bloomsbury Group.

Studios

Mixter

Constance Hunting worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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