Denise Hunter

Denise Hunter is an American author of romance, Christian and women's fiction. She has written more than 40 novels and has appeared on the Amazon, ECPA, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers lists. Three of her books have been adapted into Hallmark movies: The Convenient Groom, A December Bride, and The Goodbye Bride. Hunter has appeared on the 700 Club and received awards such as The Holt Medallion Award, The Carol Award, The Reader's Choice Award, and The Foreword Book of the Year Award.

Early life Hunter was born in 1968 in Middletown, Ohio. She graduated from Madison High School and attended Sinclair Community College, where she majored in graphic art for two years. In 1989 she married Kevin Hunter and they moved to Indiana, where she began attending Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne, changing her major to secondary education. She has said that her early works were written while her children napped.

In 2016 two of Hunter's novels were adapted into Hallmark movies: The Convenient Groom, starring Vanessa Marcil and David Sutcliffe, and A December Bride, starring Jessica Lowndes and Daniel Lissing. In 2019, Hunter's novel The Goodbye Bride was adapted as Christmas on My Mind, starring Ashley Greene and Andrew Walker, on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel.

Personal life Hunter and her husband live in northern Indiana. They have three children. Her husband owns a home improvement company, which inspires the many handyman characters in her novels.