Steven Whitehurst (born March 3, 1967) is an African-American author, poet, and educator who currently resides in Calumet City, Illinois.

After graduating from Thornton Township High School in 1984, Whitehurst attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale where he was a U.S. Air Force ROTC student.

Whitehurst later returned to Chicago State University to pursue additional educational credits in the history/ethnic studies graduate degree program.

His political activities included participating in civil rights marches for racial/social justice; working as a canvasser for numerous political campaigns including those of Senator Carol Moseley Braun, Judge R. Eugene Pincham, and the Jesse Jackson presidential campaign, 1988; and being appointed and briefly serving as the Illinois Solidarity Party's 2nd Congressional District State Central Committeeman and Thornton Township Committeeman.

In 1991, Whitehurst returned to his alma mater -- South Suburban College—as the Academic Skills/Transition Advisor for the Student Support Services TRIO Grant Program.