BIOGRAPHY – LINDA MASON HUNTER

“Linda Mason Hunter is a rare writer -- someone who’s helped create great-selling books and is a pleasure to work with. As an editor, I can say that finding these qualities together is not as easy as I’d like it to be.” - Benjamin Allen, Executive Editor, Meredith Corporation.

A PIONEER IN AMERICA'S GREEN MOVEMENT

Linda Hunter is an award-winning journalist specializing in sustainable living. Her first book, The Healthy Home: An Attic-to-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living (Rodale Press, 1989) became a primer for the burgeoning green building movement. A favorable review in The New York Times called the book "a sort of Whole Earth Catalog for the home," leading to multiple national and international media appearances, including features on "Good Morning, America," CNN, among others. 

Formerly an editor with the Des Moines Register, Meredith Corp., and Rodale Press, Linda travelled the U.S. supervising photo shoots and searching for stories about houses and the people who live in them. She has freelanced for the past 30+ years, winning national awards for feature writing and publishing in-depth articles about living in balance with nature. In 1994 she founded Healthy Home Designs marketing architect-designed home plans with blueprints and eco-specifications, one of which was featured in an 8-part television series on the PBS show “Hometime.”

Linda has written and produced more than 12 books (including Green Clean, a classic in its genre). Under the name Ink Pinn Press, she and illustrator Suzanne Summersgill published Three Green Rats, An Eco Tale, a children's book printed on forest certified paper in plant-based inks, winner of two national awards (Moonbeam and Forword Indies) and published in Korean. The fourth edition of the book (2026) is now widely available to mass markets; signed and dedicated copies are available on this website.

Forever hungry for new adventure, she has lived in a log home in the rustic backwoods near Fayetteville, Arkansas; a renovated one-room schoolhouse next to a waterfall in the upland hills surrounding Strafford, Vermont; off the grid on the edge of a granite cliff overlooking the Pecos River in New Mexico; in a canvas yurt by the Amtrak station in Lamy, New Mexico, and in a lovely garden condo a block from the beach in the Kitsilano neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, always returning to her century-old farmhouse in the heart of Iowa, home base for the last 50 years. When not in her garden or road tripping with Harpo (her 12-year-old Briard), she can often be found in studio #275 of Mainframe Studios in downtown Des Moines (https://www.mainframestudios.org), where she writes and records “The Green Zone,” her daily radio program on KFMG 98.9 FM (kfmg.org).

In her youth Linda earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa State University (specializing in English Literature, History and Anatomy & Physiology) and a Master of Arts degree in Journalism from Drake University.

For more information, email Linda@HunterInk.com.

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