She turned that feeling of alienation into a sense of humor. She was an avid reader and storyteller from a young age, concocting tales so appealing about the two Christmases in her divorced family, her Jewish friend begged their parents to divorce, too. When she wasn’t buried in books, she was watching cartoons or Oprah and crushing diet cokes like a middle-aged woman going through something.   

Hunter has always known she wanted to be a writer. In high school, she also discovered a love of performing and spent a few years as a super sincere theater kid. She apologizes to everyone she made listen to her harmonize in that four-year span. (In fact, you may even be entitled to compensation).  Later, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hunter studied English lit only to realize she was not A Serious Person, and therefore probably not The Next Great American Novelist. In need of a new dream, she blended her love of performing and writing to pursue a career in TV. She started taking improv classes, writing sketches, and teaching herself screenwriting. To pay the bills, she got a job at a hospital as a pediatric radiation oncology coordinator. She was worried the life-or-death nature of the job would make her comedy writing dreams seem unimportant, but instead found it confirmed that making people laugh was her calling. Soon after, she started working as an assistant at Bento Box Animation Studios. While Hunter loves all things comedy, animation has a special place in her heart. As someone with big feelings and a manic sense of humor, she feels seen by cartoons. 

Recently, Hunter, who has been described as “Coen Brothers meets SpongeBob,” was selected for the 2020 Black List x Women In Film Episodic Lab. As a lifelong fan of Nickelodeon, Hunter is covered in bruises from pinching herself that she works here now. Whether she is writing stories for animation or live-action, Hunter always writes what she wishes she could’ve seen growing up: Latinx pride, blended, nontraditional families, and complicated female protagonists. And most of all, she writes to make kids who aren’t sure what else to do, laugh.