Bio | Peace Through Fiction

Nicole Hunter

Nicole Hunter is a summa cum laude graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College, where she double majored in English and communications and received the A.W. “Bud” Collins Jr. Writing Prize. She is an MFA candidate in creative writing at the NEOMFA consortium in northeast Ohio.

Hunter developed the Peace Through Fiction creative reading method, which is registered with the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office and available for noncommercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 U.S. License.

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 serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Project: LEARN, Cleveland’s largest organization for adult literacy. She worked with StoryCorps to bring their Door-to-Door Mobile Program to Cleveland for three days of recording with Project: LEARN students and teachers in September 2010.

She writes the blog Peace Through Fiction and co-writes the Starfish blog with Bashir Nkoma of Dar Es Salaam.

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.