About

Nate Gunter is a writer and editor living in Oklahoma. For fifteen years, he was managing editor then editor-in-chief of Oklahoma Today, the official magazine of the state of Oklahoma that was shuttered in 2026 after seventy years of continuous publication. 

In addition to Oklahoma Today, his writing has appeared in The Esthetic Apostle, This Land Press, two anthologies of the Woody Guthrie Poets, an anthology of the Bridgewater International Poetry Festival, the Opinion page at CNN.com, the Times of London, and maybe most impressively, the Bingo Bugle of Wisconsin. He also has pieces upcoming in Outside magazine and the 12th Beyond Queer Voices anthology.

He holds a Master of Professional Writing from the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Bachelor of Arts in religion from Wake Forest University. A sixth-generation Oklahoman who learned to perform poetry from Maya Angelou and to write funny from Doug Marlette, he lives off Route 66 in Oklahoma City with his husband, behind the high school where both Senator Elizabeth Warren and Color Me Badd graduated.