Writing
Liz Hunt is a writer and poet based in New Jersey. She has been writing for four years. Her articles and poetry have appeared in Refinery29, Flora Fiction, Kennings Artistic and Literary Journal, Collective World by Thought Catalog and The Ascent. She is the author of When Life Begins and Ends, a collection of poetry and prose which stems from her journey with grief after losing her mom when she was 18 years old and her dad when she was 21 years old. Liz’s work is an honest reflection of her journey of reckoning with and acknowledging death and its impact on her life and identity. She is working on her next collection of poetry and prose inspired by growth, nature and seeing beauty in who one is.
PUBLICATIONS
Money Diaries Refinery29 (March 2025)
“Controlled Burn” Flora Fiction (Volume 4, Issue 3)
“I WONDER WHEN I GOT TO BE SO BLUE” Kennings Artistic and Literary Journal (14th Edition)
“Why YOLO Is A Bad Mantra To Live By” Collective World by Thought Catalog (2022)
“Sometimes I Wish I Had More Than This” Collective World by Thought Catalog (2022)
BOOKS
When Life Begins and Ends (2022)
Elizabeth Hunt’s When Life Begins and Ends is a collection of poetry and prose that celebrates the healing journey that is grief and offers hope to others dealing with loss.
This book is an honest reflection of Liz and her journey of reckoning with and acknowledging death and its impact on her life and identity. The raw vulnerability, the honest exposure of her childhood, and the years of transforming her perspective on her deep, debilitating grief establishes her work as an important book for all of us as we will all find ourselves between the pages at some point in our lives. Liz offers the reminder that we are not alone and that one day hope will find the cracks and pour in. This is a story about looking death in the eyes and discovering love.