Born in Whittier, California in 1952, Stark Hunter was an English teacher for 38 years before retiring from the classroom in 2017. He has written and published 14 books, which are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble: In A Gadda Da Vida, a novel, published in 2002, Carnivorous Avenues, a poetry volume published in 2004, Flies, a short novel published in 2005, Private Diaries, a satire published in 2006, Voices From Clark Cemetery, a poetry volume published in 2013, Cocktails For the Soul, a poetry anthology published in 2013, Voices From Mt. Olive Cemetery, a poetry volume published in 2018, Digested by the Dust, another poetry anthology, published in 2018, Scenes From the Cerebellum, published in 2019, Monster Trees, published in 2020, White Sidewalks in 2021, Covid Gardens in 2021, Pink Oleanders in 2022 and Mind Tavern in 2024.

In addition to several poetry anthologies, Hunter's work has also appeared in the Spillwords Press Literary Journal, the Lothlorien Poetry Journal, the Synchronized Chaos literary journal, Silent Spark Press Literary Journal, and The Hong Kong Review.

Fourteen of Mr. Hunter's poems from Voices From Clark Cemetery were adopted and set to music by Dr. George Mabry, composer and former conductor of the Nashville Symphony Chorus, for his work, Voices, a musical drama which was performed at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee in 2015.