Rebe Huntman

Rebe Huntman is a choreographer, dancer, memoirist and poet who writes at the intersections of spirituality, world religion, and feminism. For over a decade she directed Chicago’s award-winning Danza Viva Center for World Dance, Art & Music and its dance company, One World Dance Theater. Rebe collaborates with native artists in Cuba and South America, has been featured in LATINA Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune, and on Fox and ABC. A Macondo fellos and recipient of an Ohio Individual Excellence award, Rebe holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from The Ohio State University. Her essays, stories, and poems appear in The Southern Review, CRAFT Literary, Lit Hub, The Missouri Review, Cincinnati Review and elsewhere. Her critically acclaimed memoir, MY MOTHER IN HAVANA, is a 2025 Foreword INDIES and American Book Fest Best Book Award finalist. She lives with her husband Rick in Delaware, Ohio and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Both e’s in her name are long.