Rob Hunter
For Vermont State Representative Bennington – 4
Representing: Arlington, Manchester, Sunderland, Sandgate
Email: HunterForStateRep@gmail.com
What Matters Most
I am running for a seat in the Vermont House because I know what it is like. I know what it’s like to try to afford a first house in Vermont. I know what it’s like to raise children in Vermont. I know what it’s like to send those children to public school. I know what it’s like when unplanned for expenses ruin your day. I have seen many changes in Vermont over the last three decades: from vacant shop windows, to Help Wanted signs on so many stores these days, to a pandemic and inflation that sent our expenses to an all-time high. As a teacher over the last 32 years, (the last 27 at Burr and Burton Academy), I’ve known a classroom before the internet, and a classroom where AI has been developed. I’ve lived in this state for almost thirty years. Vermont is truly a place of beauty with a diverse population. Our issues are not unique, per se, but they are fundamentally unique to this small state. I am running to be your state representative because I am one of you. I want to fight for you.
The Vermont House will be wrestling with the issues that are important to you and me. Affordable housing, education spending, taxes, quality affordable childcare, and quality affordable healthcare. I’m looking forward to bringing an experienced, balanced voice to the table.
To contribute, please send a check made out to Rob Hunter for Vermont State Rep to:
7947 Main Street
Manchester Center, VT 05255
(Coming soon, link to donate online)
About Rob
Born in 1964, Rob grew up in Attleboro, Massachusetts and attended public schools there. He attended Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York and earned his B.A. in English. After graduation he began sending out his poetry to literary magazines and slowly began to see his work published. In 1990 he began his Master’s Degree at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. He met his wife there the next summer. He began his teaching career at The Linsly School in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1991. Rob and Nancy married in 1992. Rob was offered an English teaching position at then Burr and Burton Seminary in 1996.
During his years at Burr and Burton, Rob was actively involved in the school. From advising the National Honor Society, to coaching JV girls’ soccer, to creating and running the school’s Fitness Center for 25 years, coaching athletes there every day after school. He created the school’s first literary magazine called Between Ranges, and sponsored a club for budding writers called The Writers’ Forum. He eventually became the English Department Chair, and was awarded the Rowland Chair for Excellence in Teaching.
Rob’s poetry has appeared in dozens of on-line and print journals. His first volume of poetry, September Swim, was published in 2005 by Spoon River Poetry Press. His second volume of poetry, Wild in the Dawn, was published in 2023 by Finishing Line Press. With a group of local poets, he helped edit the state’s first anthology of Vermont poetry in 2012, called Birchsong. Currently he is seeking an agent for his debut novel and his debut young reader’s novel.
Rob and his wife Nancy Strain have two grown daughters.