Founder and Owner
Imagine being able to step out your backdoor and watch spaceships lift off into bright blue skies. Imagine being able to ride your bike to the beach whenever you want. Imagine visiting the magic that is Disney often. Imagine spying amazing creatures like alligators, sea cows, river otters, bobcats, wild hogs, snakes, eagles, and many others, all in their natural habitats…all right in your backyard.
Growing up in Merritt Island, Florida, home to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and the 140,000-acre National Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge, was like growing up in paradise for Craig.
A father, teacher, and author, Craig has spent much of his adulthood wondering why he ever left Florida and working to make a grand return to the writer’s paradise in which he was raised. Today, he loves recalling the many thrilling escapades that he and his friends experienced on the island, and he often wonders about the mystical world that he always knew existed beyond the stars.
Craig has taught English for more twenty years, including teaching adult English language learners for the past fifteen years in the Chicagoland area. He holds undergraduate degrees from Cairn University (1991) as well as graduate degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary (2001). He is currently completing an M.A. in English from Indiana University East (Summer 2022) while also an MFA in Creative Writing from Lindenwood University (Fall 2023).
When Craig is not teaching class or attending classes, he is usually either writing or reading. He also enjoys spending time with his family, which includes his wife, Beth, and his four adult children: Manda, Micah, Maddie and Macey (though the latter are mostly enjoyed via phone and email as they all live out of the house now).
Huntly House is the brainchild of Craig Furtick. Founded in 2012, Craig started Huntly House as a way to expediently publish his (and his “friends”) various writing endeavors.