Hal Sundt ’12

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Hal Sundt ’12 wrote for The New York Times Magazine about living in the Hotel at Oberlin and watching QVC.

Hal Sundt appeared on the podcast "The Greg Krino Show" to talk about his new book, Warplane: How the Military Reformers Birthed the A-10 Warthog.

Hal Sundt's first nonfiction book, Warplane: How the Military Reformers Birthed the A-10 Warthog, was published on October 3, 2023. It chronicles the design, development, and service life of the A-10 Warthog attack airplane.

Senior lecturer in the Department of Writing and Communication, Hal Sundt wrote for The Ringer about Richard Rhodes and his book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

The story “Pythons of the Everglades” by Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Hal Sundt ’12, which was published in The Bitter Southerner, was long-listed as a notable essay in "The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021." This story was made possible in part because of a Grant-in-Aid from Oberlin.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Hal Sundt ’12 has received a book deal from Lyons Press for his first book of nonfiction, tentatively titled Go Ugly Early: A Story of Survivable Design and the Air Force's Un-Killable Jet, which will chronicle the design, development, and service life of the A-10 Thunderbolt II (a.k.a "The Warthog").

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Hal Sundt published an essay on quarantine, space, and one of his favorite shows, Frasier, for the American Scholar.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Hal Sundt's story "Pythons of the Everglades" was published in the Bitter Southerner. The story was made possible by funding through a grant-in-aid from Oberlin College.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Hal Sundt ’12 published a story about the future of amusement parks for the Ringer. The story was also recognized on Longform, an aggregator of top literary journalism stories.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Hal Sundt's story "Giving up the Ghost" was published in the Los Angeles Review of Books

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Hal Sundt's piece "Norman Doors" was published in the New York Times Magazine.