John Huey’s student work of the 60’s-70’s was influenced by teachers in Vermont such as John Irving at Windham College and William Meredith at Bread Loaf.

After many years of involvement in an ongoing international business career that involved travel to over 90 different countries (including an intense, sometimes perilous, engagement with Russia between 2004-2013) he returned to writing poetry in 2011.

Huey has had poems presented in the ‘Temptation’ anthology published in London by Lost Tower Publications, ‘Unbelief’, an anthology published by Local Gems Press and the ‘Addiction/Recovery Anthology’, published by Madness Muse Press.

Work has also appeared in ‘Poetry Quarterly’, ‘Leannan Magazine’, ‘Sein und Werden’, at ‘In Between Hangovers’, ‘Bourgeon’, ‘The Lost River Review’, ‘Red Wolf Journal’, ‘Perfume River Poetry Review’, ‘What Rough Beast’, ‘Poydras Review’, ‘Flatbush Review’, ‘Memoir Mixtapes’, ‘The Blue Nib’ and ‘The Ekphrastic Review’.

Huey’s full-length book, ‘The Moscow Poetry File’, was published by Finishing Line Press in November 2017.

His second full length book, ‘The Far Visible’, was completed in 2018 and is now looking for a publisher. In 2019 Huey completed a 70 longer form book, ‘The Sunset Fires’, involving the years 1966-1972. He was a “charter member” of that generation and was not satisfied with much of what he had seen in print and on film about that often trivialized and misunderstood era. This new work is an attempt to take another look at those years and to hopefully contribute to the ongoing study of those times. A number of the poems in these newer books have either already appeared in journals or have been anthologized.

In 2020 and into 2021, while writing and publishing new poems, he is planning on editing an edition of a late friend’s work while, after a lengthy period of basic research, continuing work in earnest on a long planned first novel, ‘The Lost Andy’s’.