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About Lucas Hunt
- Lucas Allen Hunt (born November 2, 1976, Davenport, Iowa) is the president of HUNT Auctioneers and a celebrated American poet, who was born and raised in rural Iowa.
- He has helped raise millions of dollars and awareness for non-profit organizations.
- He is a graduate of the World Wide College of Auctioneering, member of the National Auctioneer’s Association, and holds the Benefit Auctioneer Specialist (BAS) designation.
- www.HUNTauctioneers.com Hunt grew up in a Grant Wood landscape of baseball parks, barnyard barbecues, and Lutheran Church Sunday School.
- He studied psychology and journalism at The University of Iowa, and attended the Iowa Writer's Workshop.
- He graduated from Southampton College with a bachelor's degree in English, and attended their MFA program.
- Hunt has published work in The New York Times, East Hampton Star, Catapult, Slice and received a John Steinbeck Award for poetry.
- He is the author of three volumes of poetry IOWA (2016, Thane & Prose), Light on the Concrete (2011, North Sea Press), and Lives (2006, Vagabond Press).
- www.lucashunt.com IOWA is the first of a five-book series that traces the poet’s progress through places of inspiration in an epic fashion.
- IOWA is about the surfeit and dearth of rural living; a celebration of green fields, the family farm and small town life.
- The next volume in the series is HAMPTONS, which will be released in autumn 2017.
- Further collections are ROME, PARIS and NEW YORK. Hunt is the Director of Orchard Literary, a Manhattan based literary agency that represents a select group of top experts and authors.
- He was Rights Manager at the Philip G.
- Spitzer Literary Agency, where he worked with best-selling authors Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke, Andre Dubus III, and Simon Van Booy.
- Hunt closed major print, audio, digital and foreign language deals.
- He founded Hunt & Light, an independent poetry publisher that released *****Original Message***** by Matthew Frazier (2013), and Constellations by Esther Mathieu (2015). He is a former resident of Springs, New York, and currently lives in Long Island City, Queens.
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