Hunt Hawkins is Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida. In 2017-18 he was a Fulbright Professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. He has published a book of poems The Domestic Life with the University of Pittsburgh Press where it won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and individual poems in many journals including Poetry, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Tri-Quarterly, and Poet Lore.