Deborah J. Hunter is a Tulsa, Oklahoma poet, spoken word artist, playwright, essayist, actor, teaching artist, workshop facilitator, and social justice activist. A descendant of 1921 Greenwood Massacre survivors, she was honored to receive a 2020 Greenwood Art Project grant for her original play, Porches, set during the years following that Tulsa tragedy and staged during the 2021 Centennial remembrance. In 2013, Hunter was an Oklahoma Poet Laureate finalist, and in 2018, she was presented a Woman of the Year Pinnacle Award.