Leanne Hunt

Leanne Hunt is a South African author who values honest communication and learning. She developed juvenile macular degeneration—a retinal eye disease—in her early teens and has made living with sight loss part of her life story. Her interest in personal growth drew her towards Christianity early on, and has led to study and research in the areas of counselling, spirituality, psychology and theology. Her hobbies include knitting, song writing, singing and reading. She is married with two grown-up daughters who live overseas.

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Kristin Tenor is a writer and editor who finds inspiration in life’s quiet details and believes in their power to illuminate the extraordinary. She is the author of the flash fiction chapbook, THIS IS HOW THEY MOURN, which won Thirty West Publishing House’s 8th Wavelengths Chapbook Contest guest judged by Shome Dasgupta. Her fiction has appeared in Best Microfiction 2024, Wigleaf, Bending Genres, X-R-A-Y, Emerge Literary Journal, 100 Word Story, and various other literary journals and anthologies. Kristin’s work also has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize as well as longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50. She currently serves as a contributing editor at Story.
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