David Hunter is a native of Knoxville. He is a former police officer, a newspaper columnist, an essayist and the author of more than a dozen books, including A Sonnet for Shasta, The Moon is Always Full and A Whiff of Garlic. He is one of the founding members of the Knoxville Writer's Guild.

His web page can be found at
David Hunter's Books, http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tnbard/