Laird Hunt is an American writer, poet, and editor. He is the author of several books of poetry, including After the War Was Over, Sailing to Byzantium, The Long Road Home, and The Chinaman's Dilemma, as well as the novel Night Passage. He is also the author of five books on writing and editing fiction and nonfiction for children and young adults. He is a member of the board of directors for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCCBWI), on which he helped establish the Children's/Young Adult Short Story Award in 2006
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A former editor at HarperCollins and Doubleday Books for Young Readers, he worked with such authors as John Updike, Douglas Adams, Margaret Atwood, and Tobias Wolff. Hunt has won several awards for his work: a Pushcart Prize; a Guggenheim Fellowship; a New Voices Fellowship; a National Endowment for the Arts grant; the New York Foundation for the Arts grant; and was named one of America's 10 best writers under 40 by The Village Voice.