VIOLET LEE HUNT is a third generation Colorado native, born and raised in Boulder. A fan of the short story-writing genre and author of six self-published books, Ms. Hunt began her writing career as a budding journalist in high school and college, working as an editor and reporter for the school newspapers.

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During her college years, her interests moved in a different direction. After receiving degrees in chemistry and computer science from the University of Colorado she refocused her creative writing abilities toward technical writing while pursuing a successful career as a computer engineer and corporate executive in the computer science field. She founded her own business processing company Vi Hunt, Inc. (2000–2006) in Boulder, Colorado. An author of two previously published books on computer science, Ms. Hunt has written and conducted numerous workshops on software engineering. She has also authored a monthly column on information engineering for IBM for two years. In addition to her successful career in computer engineering, Ms. Hunt has been a science and math teacher, lecturer and business owner.

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Since leaving the computer engineering industry, Ms. Hunt has returned to her early roots. Today, she actively commits her time and energies to her biggest passions—creative writing, gardening and reading books she had always wanted to read. After happily living for several years in a craftsman home that Ms. Hunt helped design on a mountain ledge of granite and sandstone in the high foothills overlooking Estes Park, Colorado, an unplanned opportunity presented itself. A younger, professional couple, both medical doctors, chanced upon her home and fell in love with the house and the rugged mountain terrain and made her an offer she could not refuse.

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Ms. Hunt quickly acted on a long-range plan to move to Washington State to be close to her youngest son and family. Even so, she moved with some trepidation. She has now found another home, a bungalow with “good bones”, with mountain views overlooking the vineyards of the famous Washington State winery, Chateau Ste. Michelle—replete with flowering trees, walking paths and bird habitats: a place where a writer could be happy.

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A mother, grandmother, and animal lover, Ms. Hunt now lives in Woodinville, Washington, just east of Seattle, with her 16-year-old calico cat.

 

PUBLISHING BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE

Ms. Hunt is a prolific writer having self-published six books, under her own publishing brand, Old Ann Press, named after the 650 year-old Ponderosa pine that presented a regal but gnarled existence in front of her property in Estes Park.

 

Ms. Hunt writes short stories and books for the senior women market with themes centered around the love lives of couples, unrequited love, and love gone sour. Her three self-published books of fiction include two collections of short stories—Lavender Muse: Three Short Stories About Women Who Find True Friends in Former Strangers and Patterns of Deceit: Four Couples’ Stories of Love Lost—and the novella Injured Cougar: A Romantic Fantasy. The female protagonists in these stories are tinged with vacillating elements of sadness and glory. Full of confidence, they remain vulnerable to the varied passions that love’s wind blows.

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Her fourth self-published book, Cottage in the Clouds, is a captivating memoir that details the true story account of her and her aging mother’s decision to uproot their otherwise routine lives and embark on a great adventure in their golden years building a beautiful mountain home together in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of Estes Park, Colorado. Ms. Hunt has goals to publish the following books in the tactical time frame.

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Her two most recently completed books, Notes from the Past and Growing Up on Concord, are told from the perspective of her paternal and maternal sides of her family. Notes from the Past is a non-fiction story about a hard-rock mining family and the events of their daily lives, starting when the author’s paternal grandfather as a teenager came to America in 1889 from Cornwall, England. Growing Up on Concord is a nonfiction story told by children living in Boulder, Colorado, during World War II, struggling through lean times and learning to grapple with the rapidly changing world around them. Each book weaves an interconnected family tapestry of nearly eighty years, insightful and fascinating, made possible by the rich family tradition of a written and oral accounting.

 

Her seventh book, Corporate Slide, is the semi-autobiographical account of a professional woman’s 45-year career working as a minority in the emerging information technology industry of the late 1970s and 1980s. Starting from the mid-fifties and successfully retiring from one of the world’s largest technology companies, this story centers on a professional woman’s life in a male-dominated industry—a gripping and graphically descriptive tale with a no-holds-barred style of writing.

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Ms. Hunt is currently working on a children’s book and a book of conversations she had with a stoic Midwestern pioneer woman, who grew up on the plains of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska.