In 1943, she enlisted in the WAAF and served in Melbourne in clerical roles until 1946, when she moved to Sydney, where she worked as a secretary until her marriage to Walter Gibbs Hunt in 1968.
[1] She contributed to the NSW School Magazine from 1963 and was encouraged by its editor, Patricia Wrightson, to write a novel, the first of many.
[1] Hunt won the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature at the New South Wales Premier's Literature Awards twice, firstly in 1982 for Whistle Up the Chimney, illustrated by Craig Smith, and then in 1988 for A Rabbit Named Harris, illustrated by Betina Ogden.
Whistle Up the Chimney was also commended in the 1982 Children's Picture Book of the Year awards, the judges commenting that "text itself is excellent in style, with good use of language and an infectious sense of fun".
[1] Her papers, including manuscripts and correspondence, are held in the Lu Rees Archives at the University of Canberra.