Sunny Hemphill Member Member since 2025

Poet

Poetry

Sunny Hemphill was born and raised in Brownwood, Texas. Many of her poems reflect her fundamentalist Baptist childhood in a family scarred by lack of education and generational poverty. She studied Journalism at Baylor University on a scholarship, working as a newspaper reporter and freelance journalist during her career. She has a BA in English Literature from Arizona State University and now lives in Washington State, halfway between Spokane and Seattle. She returned to writing poetry after suffering a devastating spinal cord injury in 2016.

Location:

Wenatchee, WA

Birthdate:

26 July (70 years old)