Dianna Hunter

Clouded Waters (Holy Cow! Press 2023) is Dianna Hunter's debut novel. She is also the author of two nonfiction books, Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life (University of Minnesota Press 2018) and Breaking Hard Ground: Stories of the Minnesota Farm Advocates (Holy Cow! Press 1990). Both were finalists for the Minnesota Book Award. Her short fiction, journalism, essays, and book reviews have appeared in national and regional publications such as In These Times Rural America blog, the Rural Women's Studies Association blog, Peregrine, Feminist Collections, Hurricane Alice, and Earth Matters. She earned a BA from Macalester College and an MA in creative writing from Iowa State University. A former dairy farmer and retired teacher of writing and women's and gender studies, she writes, gardens, and forages in the rocky green spaces of Duluth, Minnesota, where she lives with her wife, Deb.