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 Outside magazine, 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 a poem, “Join,” upcoming in the Beyond Queer Voices 12th Edition 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, and he is currently completing a Certificate in Modern Journalism from New York 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.